Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast to the accuracy and wisdom of Bate's book stands Aileen Ward's John Keats: The Making of a Poet. Miss Ward's book was published barely a week before Bate's and, surprisingly, neither author was aware of the other's project. Not so surprising actually, since one biography is a masterful, magnificent study, and the other is an over-written attempt at literary psychoanalysis...
Yevgeny Yevtushenko's A Precocious Autobiography; one of the few Soviet books to be published abroad in recent years without official approval, does little to enhance the author's literary reputation. While admitting the difficulties involved in translating Russian, one can hardly term Yevtushenko a great poet, or even a very good one. But then he is most important as a political and social figure, not as a man of letters. And this slim volume, a reflective account of Yevtushenko's first 30 years, does contribute greatly to an understanding of his politics...
...discussing the genesis of his life as a poet, Yevtushenko manifests a strong sense of tradition and loyalty. He writes of the love of learning handed down to him by his father, and of two poets who first encouraged his endeavor. "Once they had both wanted to become writers but so far neither had succeeded. And now they saw in me their own youth, and wanted me to fulfill its frustrated promise...
Elmwood has always been closely connected with Harvard. Thomas Oliver of the Class of 1753 built the three-story square house on Tory Row in 1767. Oliver was an amateur poet who had inherited a fortune made trading in the West Indies. He was also lieutenant governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony when, in 1774, George III appointed him president of the Council, formerly an elective office. Enraged at the appointment, a crowd of citizens gathered threateningly on the grounds of Elmwood and forced Oliver to resign. He noted, "My house at Cambridge being surrounded by about four thousand people...
...really big fat Establishment to skewer. The American college, Big Business, Suburbia and Madison Avenue may still make young men angry, but who is mad at the Episcopal Church? It is not even, like its parent body within the Anglican Communion, Established. Paris Leary, a 32-year-old poet, has rashly ignored all of these considerations in a first novel that invites the reader to share his evident hilarity at High Anglican priests, parishioners and monks at a small college town in upstate New York...