Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sleep in the park?" Not that sleeping in the park is any too healthy in summer: last week a 15-year-old runaway from upstate New York was raped by two young Negroes and her 17-year-old "flower husband" (known to her only as "the Poet") was beaten unconscious in Central Park where they were sleeping...
...mythical Perseus victoriously displaying the severed head of the Gorgon Medusa. It was completed in 1808 by the neoclassical Italian sculptor Antonio Canova. In its first week atop its pedestal, it drew gasps of admiration from some. Others responded to its supersubtle softness and delicacy much as did the poet Keats when shown Canova's half-nude statue of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. Sniffed Keats: "Beautiful bad taste...
...public," Randall Jarrell once wrote, "has an unusual relation with the poet. It does not even know that he is there." As if to refute this bitter complaint against an unpoetic age, two dozen of Jarrell's brother poets have joined in lament for his death and to explain the mysterious ways in which this minor poet had been of major importance to them...
...many ways, a Western intellectual, steeped in European thought and experience; he knew what the world was like before Communism and beyond Stalin. Born into a middle-class Jewish family in 1891, he early migrated to Paris' Left Bank and the bohemian life of a young poet trying to recapture in lyrical verse the "beauty of the vanished world" of medievalism...
Quoting this recent remark by Poet W. H. Auden, Encounter magazine asked a group of leading intellectuals if they agreed. A surprising number...