Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began preaching among low-caste Indians, but eventually decided that it was more important to evangelize among the high-caste Hindus, who made up the intellectual and spiritual leadership of the country. Out of this new mission to the top people grew Jones' rewarding friendship with Poet Rabindranath Tagore and Mohandas Gandhi...
...present a heavy parable of American life-especially the life of the semi-migratory U.S. bourgeoisie and the uncertain ecology of their nesting grounds in the U.S. suburb. Suburbia, which in its modern form is barely a generation old, has so far lacked the kind of precentor or poet that the South, the West, the City, and the Small Town long since acquired. In John Cheever, Suburbia has its first poet-mythologist...
...town of Stratford and the education Shakespeare might have received, are as interesting as they are detailed, and it seems inconceivable that any further research could have made them much more extensive. Again, in describing the London of Shakespeare's time and the courtiers who befriended the young poet, Rowse is superb...
...Rowse's assertiveness and strong language are irritating at times, they make for superb writing at others. He is clearly in love with the "exciting ... inspiring" times, with the poet whose life he is describing, and with the "precious, irreplaceable," and "unparalleled" woman who ruled England during most of Shakespeare's life. Although this blunt, opinionated man does not seem to be the chosen explicator of the infinitely subtle Shakespeare, his book is a valuable, lucid addition to the biographics of the poet. It irritates as often as it enlightens, but it enlightens very often indeed...
Anybody who has read the sonnets knows that Shakespeare is addressing a young man and urging him to marry and preserve his line: "Die single and thine image dies with thee." But who is the boy? When did Shakespeare write to him? And who are the rival poet and the dark lady who later appear in the sequence? These murky questions have perplexed generations of scholars...