Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What is lacking in Basehart's performance is sufficient feeling for the glorious music of Richard's speech. From his first Wales scene to the end, the play is a cantata with Richard as soloist. Richard is above all a poet-musician; he prefers ears to spears, couplets to doublets, books to hooks, writing to fighting, rhyme to grime. Basehart does not sing well enough...
...musings on the anti-Harvard attitude of Harvard's Henry Adams, or even reflections on the upstream migration of the alewives, persistent saltwater fish that find their way to Massachusetts streams each spring. These unlikely enclosures come from a man with an unlikely blend of talents: David McCord-poet, essayist and professional fund raiser-who retires this week after 37 years as executive director of the Harvard Fund Council...
With this bit of dialogue, Poet Kenneth Koch begins a beatnik playlet, which was produced off Broadway last March, on how the American Revolution was won. Last week, posted in large letters on one wall of Manhattan's Martha Jackson Gallery, the script served to accompany one of the nuttier art exhibitions of the season. Throughout the gallery stand nearly life-size wooden cutouts of Washington and his horse, Washington and the cherry tree, Washington crossing the Delaware...
Freed by Blindness. Born in Buenos Aires, Borges stayed to live and write, though there was plenty of reason for a writer to move. As a young lyric poet, he was condemned by the hidebound traditionalists who dominated Argentine literature. Later, when writing prose, he ran afoul of pro-Nazi Dictator Juan Peron, who banned his books. But by doggedly pursuing his writing, Borges has brought literary excitement to a country that experiences it only rarely. He has also established his own reputation among small but demanding groups of readers in Argentina and around the world. Plagued by an inherited...
Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov. A brilliantly clever arrangement of mirrors, trap doors and hidden staircases bamboozles readers, critics and perhaps characters in this thoroughly eccentric novel, most of which is in the form of a windy gloss of an old poet's last work, by an academic woodenhead who may or may not be the deposed, homosexual ex-king of a land called Zembla...