Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editor's feeling that "the lyrical spirit is badly needed in poetry today." Between the covers appear works by an honor guard of Anglo-American poets, among them Robert Graves, Roy Campbell, W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings. The spur behind the would-be poetic renaissance is an unusual editor-poet and long-time friend of poets and poetry, Thurairajah Tambimuttu...
Reuben A. Brower, professor of English, Alexander Pope and the poetic tradition; I. Bernard Cohen '37, associate professor of History of Science, the development and the influence of Newton's ideas on the eighteenth century; Philip J. Darlington, Jr. '26, Curator of Recent Insects, the Australian carabid beetles; Glanville Downey, associate professor of Byzantine Literature at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, the history of Antioch on the Orontes...
...Writer Alvin Sapinsley put it in blank verse. Even more surprising: it worked. Franchot Tone, Lee Grant and Christopher Plummer played the three tragic figures who end as corpses on a dusty street, while Boris Karloff leaned confidentially into the camera as a one-man Greek chorus to give poetic expression to the eternal verities of life, death, and man's irreparable foolishness...
Thus the tramps who trudge through The Road, a meandering, queerly poetic, semi-autobiographical novel which is the first book of Swedish Author Harry Martinson to be published in the U.S. The son of a sailor turned shopkeeper who died when the boy was only six, Author Martinson was left behind when his mother emigrated to the U.S., spent much of his boyhood and early youth tramping the world's roads and sailing the world's seas as sailor, cook, mechanic, abattoir worker and soldier of fortune...
Bearded poet and ex-member of the class of '58, Peter Heliczer leaped from the liner "Roman" last week as it sailed between Gibraltar and Barcelona. "It was merely a poetic action," Heliczer said after ship's officers had hauled him aboard. On arrival in Italy he commented "I'm not at all fed up with life. I'm going to Rome and expect to have a very good time...