Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writers of truly international rank. The only Canadian authors who have achieved renown in the U.S. are the late humorist Stephen Leacock and, currently, Prophet Marshall McLuhan. One difficulty is that Canadian artists, once they begin to succeed, tend to leave their country, a phenomenon described by 19th century Poet Charles G. D. Roberts after he himself moved abroad...
...words of 8th century Chinese Poet Li T'ai-Po had special poignance for Gustav Mahler in 1907. Aware that he was dying of a heart ailment, the composer felt a heightened awareness of worldly joys and beauties, and a piercing melancholy over losing them. He took six verses by Li T'ai-Po and other Chinese poets as texts for tenor, contralto and orchestra, and wrote his farewell in Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), his most personal and by all odds his best work. Scored in a rich, late-romantic idiom...
T.S.ELIOT once said of Samuel Johnson that, solely on the basis of his poem "The Vanity of Human Wishes," he could be considered a major poet. Johnson's poem appeared as a twenty-eight page leaflet in 1749, and was the first of his published works to bear his name on the title page. Obviously he had no previous reputation as a poet, nor do most people remember him as one, though Boswell somewhere speaks of Johnson as "perpetually a poet" (a statement intended to refer to his quality of mind. The only two poems which appear to have survived...
...have now a new version of the second century Roman's tenth satire, published as "The Vanity of Human Wishes" by the distinguished American poet Robert Lowell in Near the Ocean. This little book seems to me the outstanding production in what as Frank Sinatra recently said, "was a very good year"--for American poetry as well as for small-town girls. I think particular of the impressive collection of Robert Penn Warren, carrying us from 1923 to 1966 (Selected Poems)and the delicate one of Marianne Moore (Tell Me. Tell Me). To return to Lowell: not only does...
...Latin literature suggested that Juvenal's pointed hexameters might better be rendered in English with the use of blank verse than with the rhymed heroic couplet,Johnson notwithstanding. This, because blank verse, as the traditional meter of English narrative poetry might evoke for English readers of Juvenal what that poet, following the examples of Lucilius and Horace, evoked for Roman readers of satire: the suggestion of an ironic tone through the epic ring of the hexameter, used for very serious purposes by Lucretius and Virgil. Lowell has done exactly this, and sometimes achieves subtle effects with his rhythmical variation. Illustrating...