Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thinking perhaps of such hapless compatriots as Joan of Arc and Marie Antoinette, Alphonse Lamartine, the 19th century French poet, declared: "Women are very frequently heroic, but seldom statesmanlike." Today, more than ever, given charm, taste, tact-and looks-the wife of a ruler can be statesmanlike simply by being a woman. In the color pages that follow, TIME surveys a new and lively generation of First Ladies who are adding style and spirit to statecraft from Abidjan to Washington. Whether entertaining at home or making the foreign rounds with their husbands, the reigning beauties of 1962 are the West...
...creator of that enduring symbol of bumbling bureaucracy, Colonel Blimp; an Order of the British Empire for New Zealand Runner Peter Snell, world record holder in the mile, half-mile, 1,000-yd. and 500-meter races; Commanders of the Order of the British Empire for Novelist Elspeth Huxley, Poet Stephen Spender, Actor Emlyn Williams...
Stevens' poetry is almost untouched by social criticism, and he was perhaps too much of a poet of well-being to exert a full influence on a younger, more desperate generation. Instead, he was obsessed by the idea of order in the universe-perhaps because he was vice president of Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co. He cherished imagination not as escape from reality but as the "necessary angel" whose shaping grace can enable man to perceive the true nature of things and fulfill his need to make order of chaos. Religion, Stevens felt, had abdicated its metaphysical chair...
...enigma remains, and it is to the task of "reading it" that the editors of The Achievement of Wallace Stevens have collected 19 critical essays written over the four decades of Stevens' life as a poet. As a primer of Stevens, as it is also supposed to be, the collection provides only a finicky mosaic, and most of the essays concern Harmonium, a collection of Stevens' work only...
...Poet Marianne Moore's essay is, predictably, the best of the lot. But it is the nature of Stevens' work that phrases from his poems describe it better than any the critics can invent. Poetry, he said, "must almost resist intelligence." Only Randall Jarrell knows when he's licked: "Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around," he writes in perhaps the book's most apt judgment. Characteristic of Stevens' artful use of assonance and word-echoes to make a little something out of nothing much, is a stanza from...