Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carl Sandburg did not need the ex tra five years. When he died last week at 89 - the same age as the early 19th century Japanese painter - on his goat farm near Flat Rock, N.C., he was solidly established as a poet and historian...
...Fate, as the poet says, makes bad jokes." That was Euripides' sad comment on life, and today it can still make us think and cry. Especially if it is put on the stage with skill and passion. Thomas Babe has embellished an ancient theme with the trappings of 1967, and the result is such a success that few of us who saw his Trojan Women will soon get over...
SELECTED LETTERS OF DYLAN THOMAS, edited by Constantine FitzGibbon. This carefully culled selection of the tragic Welsh poet's letters painfully - and touchingly -reveals that his chronic fault was a reckless profligacy in everything...
...growing number of Communist literary critics are pointing out publicly that the trouble with literature in their countries is not dearth of talent but too much party censorship. Most of them agree with Russian Poet Andrei Voznesensky that the people now want, and are ready for, "the naked truth, and not truth concealed beneath the fig leaf of censorship." Last week two critics were rebuked for writing in Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Communist Youth League newspaper, that Soviet theater censors seem to find anathema every play that offers "a serious answer to the serious problems of life...
...matters of style the reporter who gets a good story from a very good but anonymous source has the poet's problem; he has to tell it with such airs the reader knows he has a sword upstairs, and so a story out of Johnson City Tex., beginning "President Johnson is known to believe . . ." is translated by insiders as "President Johnson told me today...