Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sullivan's Tartuffe. It is appropriate, if amazing, to say that the ham in the actor reveals the pig in mankind. Sparing no excess of speech, gesture or mien, he performs a surrealistic wedding dance of malice and humor. Almost equal praise accrues to Richard Wilbur, the poet. Despite a slight trace of melodic monotony, his springy, intelligent couplets turn Molière's French into speakably idiomatic English...
...expanded by Kant and Freud. Using a vocabulary uniquely his own, he has written a general field theory of the mind-the origin and nature of human insight, how it relates to its various forms of expression, whether in the formulas of the physicist, the word pictures of the poet, the concepts of the philosopher. Insight, say Lonergan's followers, spells out the possibility of a transcultural philosophy that would allow thinkers from different traditions-Thomists and logical positivists, for example-to understand one another by paying attention first to each other's basic cognitional activity...
...published poems of Eliot's long lifetime's work hardly fill 200 pages. He also wrote five major verse plays of varying quality and several volumes of criticism. His strongest admirers recognize that his poetic subject matter and emotional range were limited. But no poet has ever been more fortunate in his time and place: Eliot was uncannily attuned to the moment after World War I when an entire generation was haunted by spiritual despair...
Eliot thus became the only major poet of this century who was intensely and essentially Christian. The development of this poetic theme which seemed so sudden at the time, was accompanied by a more gradual shift in style and manner. Thus, by the time he wrote the Four Quartets, his last major poems, Eliot's style was often densely compact, unitary, monolithic even: much more self-contained except for the recurring Christian symbology. However elevated, the later poems are neither so revolutionary nor so widely pertinent. Naturally enough: the saved man speaks to a resentful audience, the tortured...
Died. Thomas Stearns Eliot, 76, expatriate U.S. poet and man of all letters; of pulmonary emphysema; in London...