Word: poeticize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them to you because I know you will keep them." Soon they decided to do a book together. It never reached publication while the poet lived, but since his death Prieto has become known throughout Spain as the "Line Poet," primarily for his exquisite evocations of Lorca's poetic moods. Butterflies & Starlings. The poet's own drawings capture more the passion of a moment; Prieto's, the controlled fire that is Lorca's hallmark. The imagery that surprises in print, astonishes in pictures. Lorca's Ode to Walt Whitman, for example, goes...
...scholar, he converted the classics of seven languages into Greek. As a philosopher, he absorbed Bergson, Nietzsche, Buddha and Lenin, and formed a derivative, somewhat nihilistic creed that seemed to sentence man to hopelessness and Western civilization to death. As a poet, he added 33,333 poetic lines to Homer's Odyssey-three times the master's output-and then dared to call it a modern sequel to that epic from the dawn of Western thought...
...brother. To support the family, his father manhandled herring barrels for a livelihood. Life was harsh in Vitebsk, but he remembers his father, who changed his name from Segal to Chagal (Marc added the second l for euphony in French), as a good provider, a "simple heart, poetic and muted." Sheltered by the Jewish commandment against graven images, the young dreamer never saw so much as a drawing until, one day, he watched a schoolmate copying a magazine illustration. When he was ridiculed for his astonishment, "it roused a hyena in me," and he began copying and improvising from magazines...
...most fascinating to art historians, who see in them the first stirrings of surrealism. The first person to recognize them at the time was Guillaume Apollinaire, poet and influential art critic, who muttered that Chagall was "supernatural." Apollinaire rushed home to dash off a poem titled Rotsoge (a poetic moniker, deliberately foreign-sounding, by which he addressed Chagall), describing him as having hair like "the trolley cable across Europe arrayed in little many-colored fires." He did Chagall a better favor by instigating a show in 1914 in Berlin. It was a sensation with the German expressionists...
Those Eyes, That Shape. To an unnamed correspondent young Adams confides the barriers to these cool calculations, and again dutifully transcribes them in his diary. The problem is a girl-Hannah Quincy of Braintree, to whom he gives the poetic name of Orlinda. He dreams of her in "a scene which seems to be grappled to my soul with Hooks of Steal, as immoveably as I wish to grapple in my Arms the Nimph who gives it all its ornaments. If I look upon a Law Book and labor to exert all my attention, my Eyes tis true...