Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert Frost, 88, patriarch poet of the U.S., in Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital after surgery for a urinary tract obstruction complicated by a mild heart attack and a subsequent blood clot in his lung; Clifton Webb, 69, courtly film comedian, in a Houston hospital for vascular surgery; Mrs. William O. Douglas, 45, wife of the Supreme Court Justice, with lacerations of the forehead and left knee sustained in a car-truck collision in Georgetown not far from her home; Hugh Gaitslcell, 56, Britain's Labor Party leader, in a London hospital with pleurisy complicated by pericarditis...
...from Bip's hat sprouts a rose. Both share the knowledge that no matter how funny the pratfall, the heart is where the hurt is. In nursing that hurt, Marcel Marceau shows himself to be a stylish musician of motion, an exciting architect of empty space, an eloquent poet of silence...
...Australia, Canada or New Zealand), ran a poor second. In the three countries, 86 theaters staged his plays last season in 1,980 performances. The chief reason is A. W. von Schlegel, a German writer whose stunning translations of Shakespeare were completed in 1840. He was such an accomplished poet himself that people who know both languages often claim that the German versions of Shakespeare's plays are better than the originals...
When he graduated from Oxford in 1943, Poet Philip Larkin dreamed of becoming a famous novelist and living on the Riviera "like Somerset Maugham." But after two novels flopped in Britain, he decided he was better suited to poetry, confessing later: "It's like moving to a much smaller house after finding you cannot afford to keep up the mansion of your dreams." Larkin has become one of England's finest poets, but he may have deserted his mansion too soon. The second novel, A Girl in Winter, has now been published in the U.S.; and while...
Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov. Always provocative, often perverse, the greatest verbal prestidigitator of his time successfully juggles a dead poet, a live scholar and an imaginary land...