Word: poeticizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Montale has been called "the Italian Eliot," and the comparison is not an idle one. Like Eliot, he stood during the '20s in the vanguard of the poetic revolution that introduced the vernacular into verse. Like Eliot, he has written very little (three volumes of verse and three of criticism), but that little he has written with iridescent precision. Like Eliot, he was infected with the century's accidia, sank into morbid pessimism, rose again in religious hope. Unlike Eliot, however, Montale has not trained his spirit to the lattice of traditional theology; his God is a rough...
...himself, to perpetrate in language "the gestures of a life that is nothing but itself," was Montale's singular obsession. His entire poetic corpus is a relentless meditation on the mystery of the self, on the continuing conversation of the self and the Other, on the tragic predicament of the self in time. Even on brief vacations from eschatology in lyric gardens where
...will deliver a series of public lectures on romanesque architechtural sculpture. The Norton Professorship is devoted to poetry "interpreted in the broadest sense to include, together with verse, all poetic expression in language, music, or the fine arts...
Later that same month, a number of pacifists, armed with gas masks and sporting arm bands and placards protested against "the war mongering preachings" of Paul P. Cram '15, instructor in History, by picketing outside his classroom. Cram paid no attention to the protestors or their placards (including such poetic master-pieces as: Churchill's in a jam/No fault of Mr. Cram/But he must fight alone/Save democracy at home...
...intended as a natural Everyman but can also seem a bit of a nit, a boy rover in a working-class wonderland. Tested against cold reality, his story rings false; yet Varda gives it the aura of just-discovered truth, of a vision entirely personal and poetic...