Word: poetical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard has a long tradition both of nurturing new poetic talent and in supporting academic study in the field...
English Instructor Nicholas Jenkins echoes the feelings of many faculty members when he says that "Harvard is the center of a flourishing poetic culture." Creative talent includes both the well-known poets on the Harvard faculty--such as Professor of English Peter Sacks and Briggs-Copeland Lecturer Henri Cole--and poets living in the Boston area, like Derek Walcott, Frank Bidart and new Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Harvard also boasts such nationally acclaimed critics as Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler and Fredric Wertham professor Barbara Johnson. And the university's Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, a position...
...professional poetic activity at Harvard is flourishing, it's less clear that the student body feels deeply connected to the subject...
...have loved and lost has its merits, especially for poetic types like JONI MITCHELL, but to have lost and found is still sweeter. Mitchell has been reunited with a daughter she put up for adoption in Toronto in 1965, when Mitchell was just 21 and not yet a folk-singing star. She went public about her desire to meet her daughter, now 32, last December, but because of Ontario's strict adoption-secrecy laws, she had a hard time finding the young woman. "Apparently her daughter was looking for her too, so there's sort of a fairy-tale ending...
Rather than attempting to emulate classic poets or British traditions, Ginsberg and other members of the Beat generation opened up the possibility of free, unconstrained poetic expression, poets and scholars...