Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RANDALL JARRELL, 1914-1965, edited by Robert Lowell, Peter Taylor and Robert Penn Warren. A posthumous appreciation of the poet and critic, written by his friends, most of them eminent writers whom he served as unofficial custodian of artistic conscience...
...play would have been the fourth in O'Neill's aborted nine-play cycle, A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed, an epic intended to span two centuries of U.S. life in one family's history. Mansions begins where A Touch of the Poet leaves off, in the Massachusetts of the 1830s. The hero of the earlier play, a swaggering, staggering Irish tavern keeper named Con Melody, has just died, having spent most of his life in brash discord with the Yankee landowning gentry. But before he dies, Con has a vision of personal revenge and future glory...
...fretful, aging charmer, her hidden impulse is as sin-deep as incest. Using spider-and-fly tactics, Deborah invites Simon to take over the tangled web of his dead father's business and installs Daughter-in-Law Sara as mistress of the Harford mansion. Simon, an erstwhile poet turned gimlet-eyed merchant, agrees-if he can absorb the entire firm and expunge his father's name. Deeper shades of Oedipus. In the end, mother goes mad; Simon and Sara's doom seems to await another play. The collegiate aphorist in O'Neill has sententiously announced: "Success...
These effects notwithstanding, the limerick is very far from being pornography. Indeed, it serves something largely contrary to the purposes of today's pornographers-it produces laughter. Poet Wystan Auden is quoted to this end in the current collection...
Future of Swearing and Improper Language, Poet Robert Graves put the case more simply; people, he noted regretfully, were swearing more but enjoying it less...