Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year as a Benedictine novice. He can talk to students-as well as to businessmen and farmers-with equal ease about politics and poetry. At the risk of sounding fey, he usually prefers the far-out. A New York Times reporter last week described this conversation between McCarthy and Poet Robert Lowell, an ardent supporter who has been traveling with the entourage...
...Lawrence has long been admired as both a poet and painter. As a novelist, he was a passionate realist and an impassioned crusader for plain talk about sex. As a playwright, however, Lawrence has been ignored; his eight plays were poorly received on the rare occasions when they were performed during his lifetime, and they were first published in a collected edition only three years ago. Their new eminence is the result of a brilliant repertory pro duction of three of them at London's Royal Court Theater by a relatively un known director, Peter Gill...
...soon. But he's willing to enjoy the applause (writers receive no such recognition in Argentina, he explains), and turned around three times on the way off the stage to respond with grateful abbreviated bows. He tells himself that these people have come to see what a blind foreign poet is like. Borges won't admit (and won't believe) that he's one of the great figures of international literature...
...will care for beauty, and not for the circumstances of beauty," predicted Borges in his February 28 lecture on the art of translation. When men learn to overcome their reverence for fact, they will see beauty without impingement by biographical-historical "accidents" surrounding it: we will ignore a poet's name, origins, nationality...
...appropriate finale to the Norton Lecture series will be Borges' discussion of his own art. In the sixth and last lecture April 10, as he said at the end of the fifth, "I shall speak of a lesser poet whom I never read but whom I have to write. I shall speak of myself and you will have to forgive me this quite affectionate anticlimax...