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...nationality, from men of high distinction and preferably of international reputation," a lecturer on poetry. But this didn't mean poetry in the narrow sense of verse, meter and rhyme. The bequest explicitly states that "Poetry shall be interpreted in the broadest sense, including, together with Verse, all poetic expression in Language, Music, or the Fine Arts, under which term Architecture may be included...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mystique of the Norton Lectures | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

Frye's first major work was a study of William Blake. Fearful Symmetry, published in 1947. In it he attempted to demonstrate that Blake, often considered to be an inspired psychotic in the staid world of letters, is actually a "typical poet" and that his thinking was "typically poetic thinking." Frye's thesis hinges on the same notion of unity or archetype. And that is, most simply, the body of myths shared by the Western tradition as they have been expressed in its ancient rituals, and in all of its art down through the ages. In his conclusion to this...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: The Myth of Northrop Frye | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

Burgess supports his dyspeptic Don Quixote through all sorts of polemical extremities. The reader is lashed with puns and offered poetic tidbits taken from Hopkins. But the book succeeds less as a novel than as intellectual program music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wolf of God | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

...LILY" DOESN'T have the same kind of verbal or poetic content Dylan's earlier lyrical marathons did. It uses short words to tell a story of jealousy, revenge, robbery and murder in the Old West. But it only tells us so much; most of the "plot" is missing or only present obliquely. We never find out who the Jack of Hearts is, or what happens to him when it's all over. You feel the song could be twenty times as long: there's room for that much more detail. What Dylan has included is just a slice...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Back On Highway 61 | 3/6/1975 | See Source »

Despite the extremely political nature of Reed's life. Beatty said the movie will focus more on the personal relationships Reed formed during his life, particularly the "private and poetic side" of his marriage to Louise Bryant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beatty to Play Role of John Reed '10 | 2/28/1975 | See Source »

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