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...poem, titled Rhyme Prose on Literature by Wen Fu and translated by Achilles Fang, describes the feelings of a poet when he creates. In spite of the loss of rhyme, and perhaps meaning as well, through translation, the imagery is fresh and at times brilliant. Mr. Fu has made a careful, thorough exploration of his subject and has conveyed the experiences of his art in a clear, unfaltering manner...
Modernizer Coghill was too much of a poet to follow the patchwork method, i.e., simply to insert modern words where the old ones are unintelligible. He kept Chaucer's rhyme schemes, except where they no longer rang true to the modern ear. And he concentrated particularly on reproducing the lively "tone of voice" of the 14th-century original-by the seemingly paradoxical method of making the verses sound as much like 20th-century conversation as possible...
What overcame Hardy's faults was his deep knowledge of human weakness, his brooding kinship with suffering. Some of his poems are short stories in rhyme, gravely undulating narratives about the dangers of irresponsible passion and the ironies that level men to despair. A good many turn on the theme of unhappy marriage, a subject on which he could speak with authority...
Young Fingertips. Finding reason enough for their lives in the ways of Cloone, Ches and Finn pick up the rhyme of it from the old folks. There is Brink-o'-the-Grave, midwife and layer-out of the dead who can still keen the ancient Gaelic laments; Lord Caherdown, the bogus aristocrat and tosspot; and Old Font, the village Boswell. "The night our local member of Parliament threw the mace at the Speaker of the British House of Commons ... to call attention to the wrongs of Ireland," recalls Old Font, "we lighted bonfires here in Cloone an' held...
...good ruler, a devoted foreign adviser, and enough oil royalties to work with. The five-island archipelago produces only one-thirtieth of Saudi Arabia's crude, has one-fortieth of Iraq's proven reserves, earns but a fiftieth of Kuwait's royalties. Yet Bahrein (rhyme with ah, rain) is the showplace of the oil kingdoms. Manama, the capital, looks more like a clean town in the West Indies or Bermuda than an Arab town. It has dial phones, running water, sewers, electricity. Mobile DDT sprayers roam over the islands. Malaria has been wiped out, trachoma is disappearing...