Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...haven't spoken to any politicians," he replied. "I talked to Robert Lowell, the poet. He said he had been set free. It's set the whole country free...
Though Dziady, written by Poet Adam Mickiewicz in 1832, has long been a staple of study in nearly every Polish high school, its appearance on the Warsaw stage a few weeks ago caused an uproar. When audiences laughed too loudly at the anti-Russian lines, the government's censors closed down the whole production. In recent weeks they have also closed two other plays and kept from circulation the most promising Polish movie of the year, a surrealistic comedy on politics called Hands Up. Also kept from circulation was Critic Janusz Szpotanski, 34, author of a musical satire...
...poet against society: stay away from...
Asked about the development of his career as a poet, Mr. Eberhart pointed to his high school years in Austin, Minnesota. "I could write hundreds of poems with the greatest of ease, I also excelled in five sports at once, was captain of the baseball and football teams...
Eberhart went to teach at St. Mark's where Robert Lowell became his student, and then, after the war, worked in his father-in-law's wax factory while he wrote and helped to organize the original Poet's Theatre...