Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where "the fire is sixty times as hot as the fire of this earth." To St. Thomas it was a sort of overheated sideshow that the saints in heaven were permitted to watch in order to "enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly." To the poet Shelley it was "a city much like London." To Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, whose most celebrated theatrical tract can now be seen in a free cinemadaptation, hell is just a cheap hotel room...
...continues, "can present certain kinds of information with greater precision than a textual record." Quoting the poet and traveller James Elroy Flecker, he reminds us that in a map the historian will find...
Does old Sinclair have more than an inkling of his own character? A sonnet he chooses to quote suggests that he does. "Child." apostrophizes Poet Harry Kemp, whose ear, like Sinclair's own, was of purest...
...Awful. Among the books most bragged about are the most notable flops. Jean Stafford's Elephi is repellingly saccharine, worse even than Lesley Frost's (the poet's daughter) Really Not Really, in which life (really) and fantasy (not really) are carefully trussed into sweet little packages. Poets Ogden Nash and Phyllis McGinley, both of whom are capable of better things, have written companion books (Girls Are Silly and Boys Are Awful) that are silly and awful...
...Humbug. The man who challenged the masters was short-legged, plump and swarthy, with violently staring eyes. He wore his hair in bangs to conceal two hornlike protuberances that jutted from his forehead. Contemporaries noted that there was something catlike in his manners, his wit and his sulks. Wrote Poet André Suares: "Just as the cat rubs itself against the hand, Debussy caresses his soul with the pleasure which he invokes." A natural bohemian, the composer spent nights roaming Montmartre with celebrities of the period ranging from Mata Hari to Marcel Proust...