Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whose rare bouquet is obtained by steeping 200 snakes, five civets and ten storks in a vat of rice wine. Administered daily, explained its maker, D.T. & P. will keep Mr. and Mrs. Ogilvy in good health, make their marriage happy and, for good measure, preserve them from rheumatism. Poet Laureate John Masefield put it more elegantly, without wine...
...into the carriage. He began singing in a wild manner as he usually does when angry and scarcely spoke to me till we came near Durham." Later, added his bride, he said, "Now I have you in my power, and I could make you feel it." The poet, after balking at sharing a bed with her, started out of a restless sleep, caught sight of the glowing candle, and cried: "Good God, I am surely in hell...
...Edward VII was ill," he will say with a brooding smile, "and the poet laureate?this bloody fool?wrote...
Novelist Herbert Gold, 39, has as cruel an eye for human foibles as Hieronymus Bosch, but his heart is awash with love of the world. At his best, this has made him a kind of romantic poet turned pitchman for the seamy side of life. Miraculously blending hip talk, shop talk, tough talk and the rumpled jargon of half-educated America, Gold often makes fun of the grotesques-con men, carnival barkers, sleazy hotel managers-who are his favorite characters. But he never treats them as victims of society. Their small limbo worlds take on the likeness of the great...
John William Burgon, a 19th century British clergyman and minor poet, wrote a memorable line when he described ancient Petra as "a rose-red city half as old as time." Romantic, inaccessible, it lies in the midst of a vast desert in southern Jordan, and today, as always, its only approach is through a deep, narrow gorge called the Siq, which tradition says was created when Moses struck the rock with his rod. From 300 B.C. to A.D. 100, when Petra flourished as the caravan capital of the Nabataeans, the Siq made the city impregnable, since...