Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dublin at last paid formal homage to the genius of a man who had long outraged and puzzled it-James Joyce. At the start of a week-long tribute, the Tower, refurbished with the help of funds from Film Director John Huston, Playwright Sean O'Casey and Poet T. S. Eliot, was dedicated as a James Joyce museum, housing first editions of his books, recordings of his readings, and a death mask made in 1941 in Zurich, where he died after more than 30 years of self-exile. The site was carefully chosen, for the opening scene of Ulysses...
...press is on its way-we've just won the Nobel Prize." THE CONVERSIONS, by Harry Mathews (182 pp.; Random House; $3.50). This first novel by a young poet is an ambitious montage of word play, newspaper lists and fantasies: it all hangs together after a fashion, but some of the pieces might better have stood alone. The main story line concerns the hero's search for the significance of an ancient adze, but some of the meanderings are more interesting. The rapt admirers of a Spanish bullfighter receive stigmata-like wounds in whatever part of the body...
Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov. A monstrous, witty work of often bewildering verbal agility, in which a respected old poet is annotated to death by a lunatic scholar-or is he an exiled king...
Stevens is not a great poet in the sense that Eliot and Yeats are great poets, because his work lacks attention to poetry's first domain-the land that lies, in the words of Critic G. S. Fraser, between "aesthetic perception and philosophical reflection on it." Reading "The Snow Man." many a reader has felt a sense of identification with...
This book sells for $3.75 and contains 382 aphorisms. Hence the pithy thoughts of Stanislaw J. Lee, Polish poet and satirist, are worth about 1? apiece. A penny for your thoughts...