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...Yeats, at least a new lens through which to look at his poetry. “In the end,” Vendler says, “a critic can’t renew the process. All they can provide is a new way of looking at an old poet.” But she has helped turn criticism into an art form in and of itself...

Author: By Nathaniel F. Houghteling, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pen and Paper Revolutionaries: Poetic Promoter | 3/18/2004 | See Source »

...writer, I think," he says--but he has no plans to try to fashion them into any kind of sensible mainstream career. Why start now? "Nothing changes," says Depp, who is in Wales shooting The Libertine, in which he plays the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet and pornographer who reportedly died of syphilis. "The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the moviegoing consciousness. Otherwise what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing It Depp's Way | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

Darnielle is well aware of his credentials as an oral poet and understands the ancient origins of his craft. Early cassette-tape album titles include such in-the-know Latin-isms as Taking the Dative, Transmissions to Horace, and Songs to Petronius, and he addresses Greek tragedy in songs like “Against Agamemnon,” and “Deianara Crush.” Darnielle freely acknowledges his debt to ancient literature and song-culture. It was this interest in the story of song that he brought to Cambridge last week...

Author: By Christopher A. Kukstis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Old Goat Waxes Rhapsodic at T.T.’s | 3/12/2004 | See Source »

...label 4AD (Pixies, Cocteau Twins, Throwing Muses). While the sound on Tallahassee may be much more polished than any prior Mountain Goats release, all of their strengths are plainly apparent. Frontman and only permanent Goat John Darnielle bolsters his claim to the title of indie-rock’s poet laureate with witty and insightful lyrics about a doomed-from-the-start marriage lying stagnantly in Tallahassee, Florida. His furious strumming is matched by his nasal voice, passionate and confident, making lyrics that other artists would be hard-pressed to pull off sound beautiful and perfectly fitting...

Author: By Christopher A. Kukstis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CD Review: The Mountain Goats | 3/12/2004 | See Source »

...They have eliminated most of the study of the arts from the schools,” she said. “A person can graduate from high school in America without knowledge that there is such a thing as an American architect or painter or poet or composer...

Author: By Joshua D. Gottlieb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Vendler Tapped for National Lecture | 3/12/2004 | See Source »

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