Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peverell name, will permit the sale of the Press only over her dead body--or Gerard's. James deWitt, fiction editor, may be willing to help Frances. Claudia Etienne, Gerard's sister, needs money her brother controls to satisfy the "boy toy" she wants to marry. Gabriel Dauntsey, poet and poetry editor, faces eviction from his home of thirty years if Gerard lives. Other dubious characters include Esme Carling, a rejected writer, Miss Blackett, an ill-treated secretary, and Sydney Bartrum, a desperate accountant...
Dalgleish joins a long line of detective heroes, from Doyle's Sherlock Holmes to Ngaio Marsh's Roderick Alleyn. Like his predecessors, he is an educated investigator and a deeply sensitive individual. Unlike earlier detectives, he is a professional policeman, a published poet, and he harbors a secret tragedy--early in his career, his wife died in childbirth. He avoids romance and even short-term affairs...
Newt Gingrich, poet laureate of the Yahoos, wants to stop federal funding for Public Broadcasting Services [Television, Jan. 23]. He calls public television a ``sandbox for the rich''--as if Big Bird were watched only by the kids of millionaires. PBS takes only a tiny fraction of the national budget, but this crude man would rather spend money on pet projects like Star Wars...
When Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) completed his Commedia sometime in the first quarter of the fourteenth century, he broke new literary ground by becoming the first Italian poet or produce a formal aesthetic work in the volgare, the native tongue of Tuscany...
...Pinsky's translations, passion triumphs over literalness and the result is that Pinsky--the author of several poetry collections--reveals his true identity in his work: He is more a poet than a translator. The fruit of Pinsky's labor, a vivid and passionate Inferno, is the benefactor of this bias...