Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generalizing on the subject, however. Pablo Casals, 92, takes an almost childlike pleasure in his wife Marta, more than 50 years his junior. T. S. Eliot felt that his marriage at 68 to a woman 39 years his junior helped him mature. When he turned 70, the mellowing poet declared: "I'm just beginning to grow...
Even as a poet's poet, though, Pushkin is still very special and-in translation-frustrating. His verse is elusively simple, unadorned by such easily translatable characteristics as splashy imagery or intellectual abstractions. Its strength lies rather in subtly suggestive tones and rhythms. No less a language snob and stylist than Vladimir Nabokov labored on and off for almost a decade to translate Pushkin's acknowledged masterpiece, the verse novel Eugene Onegin. Nabokov's rendering of this romantic (and mock romantic) panorama of Russian society was brilliant; yet even he decided to settle for strict literalism rather...
William G. Ferguson, a former Poetry Editor of the Advocate, now the publisher of Pym-Randall Press in Cambridge and featured poet in the last issue of The Boston Review, will read from his work at 8 p.m. tonight in Strauss Common Room in the Yard...
ALEXANDER POPE, by Peter Quennell. A considered, selective and urbane biography of the great 18th century poet, satirist and curmudgeon...
...Mickey Rooney and Rex Reed. "Let's hurry this show up," cracked the much-married Rooney. "I gotta be in court. I'm gettin' another divorce, ya know." The most memorable set of seatmates, though, was Novelist Mickey Spillane ("I only write for money") and venerable Poet Marianne Moore. "This is gonna ruin my reputation," quipped Spillane, sipping a glass of milk while Miss Moore sampled the champagne. "Don't worry," the director assured the poet when she began tugging on her calf-length skirt. "You could have worn your miniskirt for these closeups...