Word: poets
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...international set, primarily from M.I.T. and the Harvard Business School. They held lively parties–probably the liveliest in Cambridge. As an aside, the members of The Harvard Advocate certainly knew how to party as well. The third was composed of Horace Reynolds, the translator, George Palmer, the poet who published under the name of George Anthony, Gunther Neufeld, an art critic from Germany, George Burroughs, once the head of the WPA Writers Project in Hawaii who had become a Harvard policeman, Jennie Tutin, the widow of a former bookseller, and Edith, the original founder of what became...
...love.”She found connections between the metaphysical poetry she loved and the crooning she hated. In country music, she saw the same mastery of conceit—the unification of dissimilar ideas in an extended metaphor—that attracted her to the English Renaissance poet John Donne. Just as Donne created an elaborate metaphor likening the two feet of a compass to distant lovers, a country music songwriter compared a love affair to a trial and execution. She would later become the only black woman to write a number one country song, and she would...
...When poet Jean Valentine ’56 was an undergraduate at Radcliffe, she says the campus was “a much more divided world.”At the time, she recalls, women were not allowed into Lamont Library, which houses poetry recordings on the fifth floor.It wasn’t until Valentine returned to Cambridge in the fall of 1967 as a Radcliffe Fellow that she was able to listen to the recordings that she had longed to hear as a student. “I think it was a conservative world that had been there...
...wasn't the only one infatuated with Carolyn. Robert Shelton, the New York Times music critic who gave Dylan his first rave review (when he appeared on a bill with Carolyn) was also smitten by her. So was Dylan. Referring in Chronicles to her brief marriage to the poet Richard Fari?a, Dylan wrote, "I thought he was the luckiest guy in the world to be married to Carolyn...
...blue-eyed son, my darling young one?"), building a Chartres of apocalyptic imagery. Dylan once said he didn't know if the world would survive the Cuban Missile Crisis, so he put all his songs into one. This great one ends with a declaration of the poet's mission: "And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it, / And reflect from the mountain so all souls can see it, / And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin', / But I'll know my song well before I start singin...