Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best woman poet in English," allowed Poet Robert Lowell. The 400 members and guests of the Poetry Society of America gave out a dithyrambic cheer of agreement as they presented the society's Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement to Marianne Moore, 79. Indeed, one member, Negro Poet Langston Hughes, was feeling so effusive that he followed Lowell to the podium to hymn "this wonderful and lovely lady." Marianne listened with a proud but astonished smile when Hughes, as a gag, pronounced: "I consider her the most famous Negro woman poet in America...
...everything that I paint in this world," said the English mystic poet and draftsman, William Blake, "but everybody does not see alike." How vividly Blake's vision differed from that of ordinary mortals was illustrated once again last week when an English Blake enthusiast announced that he had unearthed from a castle in Ayrshire a notebook of Blake sketches that had not been seen publicly since...
...latest avid Avis ad reader? None other than Russia's traveling poet and public relations man, Evgeny Ev-tushenlco, 33, who says he's going to use the auto-rental slogan as the title for a short novel on the U.S. inspired by his recent six-week tour. "I am calling it We Try Harder, because Americans work so hard," confided Evgeny, draining his fourth daiquiri in a bar in Beirut. What's more, he continued, he hoped the book would bring him some crisp U.S. greenbacks because he was flat broke, "like a little baby...
...Thus Poet Ben Jonson, with as much irony as admiration, honored the costly pageants known as masques and performed at the courts of Britain's James I and Charles I. The happenings of their day, masques were part allegorical or pastoral drama, and part dance; the participants were actors, mimes, musicians, lords and ladies of the court, and some times even the reigning monarch himself. Jonson wrote some two dozen such verse spectacles, but his sprightly dialogues and ballads were all too often lost amid the splendor of costumes, sets and elaborate stage effects dreamed up by the Florenz...
Russell had come to the university in the hope of meeting the most brilliant of his contemporaries. It was some time before he found out that he already had done so: they were his immediate circle of friends, including the three Trevel-yans, poet, historian and scholar; Lytton Strachey, J. M. Keynes, and the philosopher G. M. Moore...