Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more legalese than Shakespeare's-but the Bard's characters have as effective counsel as any. Henry IVs plotters do not just plan to split their loot (the realm); like law clerks, they aver that "our indentures tripartite are drawn" and "sealed interchangeably." In Sonnet 35, the poet acts against himself as a friend's defender: "Thy adverse party is thy advocate." In Sonnet 46, a fair lady is partitioned-her lover's heart the plaintiff, his eye the defendant. In Henry VI, Part II, Jack Cade promises to "make it a felony to drink small...
...William Shakespeare turned 400 last week, Sir Laurence Olivier was only a month shy of becoming 57. Neither man had aged much. And the younger one proved it by stunning all London with a performance of Othello that was a greater gift to the poet than all the monuments that could be raised in a memorial year. It is Olivier's first Othello. And it will probably be called the definitive one for decades to come...
...take account of his responsibility and in attempting to do something to expiate it." Echoed Bertrand Russell: "The steps he took to awaken men's consciences to our present insanity were actuated by motives which deserve the admiration of all who are capable of feelings of humanity." British Poet George Barker was inspired to verse...
DYLAN. With mirth, sorrow, and an occasional flourish of eloquence, this play chronicles the U.S. reading tours of Dylan Thomas as the poet dipsy-doodled away his life. In the title role, Alec Guinness is uncannily good...
Borges delights in the multiplicity of things; he is fascinated with mirrors because they multiply. A poet cannot pin a thing down for eternity in a single phrase, nor a philosopher force it into a rigid system. Variety must be respected: "Never can my dreams engender the wild beast I long for. The tiger indeed appears, but stuffed or flimsy, or with impure variations of shape, or of an implausible size, or all too fleeting, or with a touch of the dog or the bird...