Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SELECTED LETTERS OF DYLAN THOMAS, edited by Constantine FitzGibbon. This careful selection shows that the great Welsh poet was incapable of writing badly-and just as incapable of living well...
...providing strict penalties for recruitment of meres. But whatever the restrictions, while there are wars to be won, mercenary soldiers are likely to find a job. They have always been hated by those whom they fought, just as they have been defended by those they defended-as in British Poet...
...employs a curious mixture of four-letter words and effete and esoteric Gallicisms. Recently published by Grove Press ($3.95), the novel is Beardsley's pornographic retelling of the Tannhauser legend. Beardsley never completed the book, but the final quarter has been written according to his plan by Canadian Poet John Glassco. His work ably mimics Beardsley's writing, giving credence to Glassco's boast that "the prose may be imitated but never the drawings." He is right. The text is less remarkable than the illustrations-among them a portrait of Venus in a startling likeness of Jacqueline...
Lincoln died last night. Mr. Kirstein, Director of the New York City Ballet and sometime poet, has written a new play about Abraham Lincoln that neither strikingly reinterprets history nor forcefully recreates it. And the deadness of the play's language and plot, the absence of mythic word and mythic act keep it a safe distance from being what its subtitle hopes, "a legend after Lincoln...
...could bandy quips with poets and wits in London and chat about women and food in the local idiom with polygamous cannibal kings in the Congo. He could write with equal authority (if not always total accuracy) on swordsmanship, sex, the source of the Nile or the location of the moun tains of the moon. Fine fencer and linguist, he was also a natural actor and raconteur, a competent artist and something of a poet. He truly exemplified Baudelaire's negative definition of the superior man: he was "not a specialist...