Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DYLAN chronicles the U.S. reading-tour years of Dylan Thomas' expiring life, when the poet was already posthumous but the hell raiser was very much alive...
...language and symbolization. Unlike animals, man adjusts to reality by renaming it on his own terms. For him, the word is the end as well as the beginning. Thus he survives lack of talent, loss of position, the law's delay, unbearable pressure, and compromise of integrity. As Poet T. S. Eliot...
...give themselves historic tutors, the brethren drew up a list of 57 "immortals" whose ideals resembled their own. Among them were Jesus Christ, Joan of Arc, Opera Composer Giovanni Bellini, and Coventry Patmore, a minor romantic poet. These models supplied them with literary and moral inspiration. The brotherhood even published a little magazine, The Germ, in 1850 "to encourage and enforce an entire adherence to the simplicity of nature...
...WAPSHOT SCANDAL, by John Cheever. A tragical-farcical sequel to The Wapshot Chronicle hurls the hapless Wapshot family from cozy 19th century St. Botolphs into the present precarious world of supermarkets, noncommunities and missile-research centers. It establishes Cheever as suburbia's first poet-mythologist...
...ability to express himself with elegance and precision is highly prized at the Quai. Novelist Remain Gary and Playwright Jean Giraudoux were foreign service officers; Poet St. John Perse (actually Alexis Leger) rose to the No. 2 post at the Quai; and Stendhal wrote The Charterhouse of Parma while in the diplomatic corps. Richelieu once effortlessly composed a 500-line insert for Corneille's verse drama, Le Cid, to replace a passage of the author's that Richelieu thought in bad taste...