Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neizvesnty fell silent, but Official Kremlin Poet Evgeny Evtushenko rose to his friend's defense. "He came back from the war with 14 bullets in his body," said Evtushenko, "and I hope he will live many more years and produce many more fine works of art." "As people say," shot back Nikita brutally, "only the grave corrects a hunchback." Evtushenko managed a brave reply: "I hope, Comrade Khrushchev, we have outlived the time when the grave was used as a means of correction." The audience was stunned, then burst into applause; even Khrushchev sheepishly joined...
Evtushenko's display of courage did not last long. Two weeks after the Lenin Hills meeting, the party's ideological boss, Leonid Ilyichev, called in the poet and a number of other young intellectuals for an attitude talk. Ilyichev was especially angry over Evtushenko's poem Babi Yar, which condemned Soviet anti-Semitism and which had just been enthusiastically received in a new symphonic setting by Composer Dmitry Shostakovich. Cultural commissars quickly canceled further performances of the symphony. As for the poem, said Ilyichev, it should be changed to include an attack on West Germany. After...
...sale" ad ran in the Saturday Review: "Robert Frost house. Shaftsbury, Vermont. 150-year-old Cape Cod. Three fireplaces. 150 acres. Studio. Barn. Small pond. Spectacular view. $27,500." Poet Frost, 88, suffering from blood clots and now in a Boston hospital, has not lived in the house since 1939, after his wife died and he turned it over to his daughter-in-law and grandson, Naval Architect William Prescot Frost. Since moving to Oregon, they decided to sell the house where the venerable poet had lived for nearly 20 years. The buyer: a doctor -a "longtime Frost fan"-from...
...just prepared an "Exhibit of Catalogues of Imaginary Books." In one case Gridley observed the "greatest of literary hoaxes," a brochure for the sale of the library of the Comte de Fortsas, 1840. Across the room was a "bibliography of the works of Sylvester Marmaduke (celebrated Aleutian Islands poet) (Vancouver, 1943?)." Next to this, Gridley noticed, was a mimeographed supplement to the British Museum's Bulletin of Printed Books. It mentioned the acquisition of the unique volume published in 1455, Asellus Hinnibundus (Whinnying Ass). Asellus begins with the words: "In hoc libro non continentur quae expectares, candide lector...
Though highly critical of several aspects of Russian life, particularly Stalinism, anti-Semitism, and bureaucratic control, the poet is a loyal Communist and has the sanction of the Soviet government. He has recently published in Pravda despite much violent criticism aimed at some of his writing from various Soviet quarters...