Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brief stopping of Thom Gunn by the University has not passed unnoticed. A review of the poet's most recent work will appear in a forthcoming issue of the CRIMSON.--Ed. Note...
...into a theme for comedy, which, unlike most modern comedy, is neither sadistic nor despairing, Christy Mahon becomes the hero of the peasants when he wanders into their town telling of his heroic murder of his father. The sudden appearance of Old Mahon shows Christy up as a mere poet, a liar. And when he actually does perform the crime before their eyes, he becomes a criminal. "There's a great gap," says Pegeen Mike, the girl with whom he has fallen in love, "between a gallous story and a dirty deed." Her rejection of Christy jolts...
...Five Times Godly, Valorous Warrior, Divine Emperor, ascended his throne in 1955. It had been secured for him by his father, who four years earlier toppled the prolific and powerful Rana family, which had ruled Nepal for a century. The young King was filled with democratic good intentions. A poet as well as a pragmatic politician, he personally edited a constitution for his 9,000,000 people (91 % illiterate) and gave his consent to Nepal's first national election...
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mark Van Doren, professor emeritus of Columbia University, will be visiting professor hero for the spring term...
...Doren joins poet Robert Lowell as the second Pulitzer Prize winner slated to serve as a visiting professor. In the English Department next year. Lowell will teach English Sa, an advanced course in the writing of poetry, and English 285, "Craft of Poetry," a limited course in the reading and criticism of poetry, during the fall term...