Word: poetes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ballads before the invention of printing, and since then in the folk song tradition, owe their power to an accompanying tune, the British poet said. He explained that music carried the story, while rapidity of action created a cinematic effect by "brilliant pacing of graphic detail...
...himself performs little. His own experimenting was unprofitable, and he ignored some of the best work of his contemporaries. But as the buccinator novi temporis (trumpeter of a new age), he is without an equal, and the next three centuries rightly regarded him as the seer, or even the poet, of science. Although he is reputed to be the father of the English essay, he despised the Epicurean life to which most of the essayists have been temperamentally inclined. He was at home in a heroic age, and scorned to be found anywhere but at intellectual headquarters...
...summer issue there are four creditable pieces--one by Desmond O'Grady, an Irish poet who lived. in Adams House last year, the others by recent graduates, Robert Dawson, Frederick Fields and George D. Horowitz. And these three probably only seem as good as they do by contrast with the rest of the material in the magazine...
...poem has got to be obscure, it should at least repay close analysis. Dawson's "The Pigeon Roof" does. It becomes evident, if one struggles with the disconnected sentences, that the narrator a) hates pigeons, b) once started a forest fire, c) had a friend who was a better poet who almost got killed when they were swimming in an irrigation ditch, but who recovered only to die on a golf course while the narrator was either on a hill behind a drive-in movie with a girl or on a barren shore, d) that the friend had started writing...
...emphasized, however, that a musical setting will restrict poetry; for instance, certain types of meter cannot be set to song. The poet must either know enough about music "to use the tune as a technical and emotional guide" or allow a composer to alter his work, Lewis said...