Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WILLIAM MORRIS, HIS LIFE, WORK AND FRIENDS, by Philip Henderson. A biography of the 19th century English artist who excelled as a poet, philosopher, painter, architect, furniture designer and interior decorator...
...Brecht. In this "farce to make you sad," Ghelderode systematically and satirically derides all the causists who ever hoped to remold the world. There is Pantagleize's Negro servant Bamboola, a naive firebrand who believes that overnight "the Negroes will be made white." There is Blank, a poet who dabbles in politics and diddles in literature. There is Innocenti, a lawyer passing as a waiter and living out the logical absurdity of a politically engaged nihilist. Pantagleize is oblivious to all except Rachel Silberchatz, a Jewish girl as splinteringly comic in her undeviating revolutionary fanaticism as Pantagleize...
Died. Patrick Kavanagh, 62, Irish poet; of pneumonia; in Dublin. Better known for his acid tongue than for his lyric poetry, Kavanagh found modern poetry "pretentious," Emerson "a sugary humbug," Yeats "You can have him." Yet Ireland knew him as one of its strongest talents for such works as "The Great Hunger...
Karl Marx was very rude about people like William Morris, the poet, artist-craftsman and social revolutionary. "Christian Socialism," he wrote in the Communist Manifesto, "is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat...
Morris dream was doomed by history. As Poet John Betjeman says of present-day England...