Word: poetes
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...PINT FOR THE POET...
With the constant bad press afflicting the royal family, one can hardly blame Prince Charles for wanting to indulge in a pint every now and then. But this drink was taken in memory of the Prince's late friend Ted Hughes, England's poet laureate from 1984 until his death...
During a question-and-answer period after Pipes’ speech, an audience member asked him to comment on the controversy over Irish poet Tom Paulin—who was invited to speak last month by the Harvard English department, then uninvited after he drew criticism for violent anti-Israeli statements, then reinvited...
...appeal of fantasy goes deeper than mere nostalgic Luddism. Tolkien, a veteran of the British nightmare at the Somme in World War I, is a poet of war, and we are a nation in need of a good, clear war story. At a time when Americans are wandering deeper into a nebulous conflict against a faceless enemy, Tolkien gives us the war we wish we were fighting--a struggle with a foe whose face we can see, who fights out on the open battlefield, far removed from innocent civilians. In Middle-earth, unlike the Middle East, you can tell...
...19th century children's story about a girl who won't eat her vegetables; a copy of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are, a collection of Russian tales and volumes of other mystical stories fill the bookshelf. Diane Ackerman, an essayist and poet from Ithaca, N.Y., used to stay at the tony Carlyle and Plaza hotels when she was in town but has become a frequent guest at the Library Hotel. "I have a nomadic mind, and my muse is very miscellaneous, so I like sampling the different rooms and the different subjects...