Word: sarton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STEVENS HEARS THE MERMAIDS SINGING by May Sarton. 220 pages. Norton...
...alliance with a sailor. The two have that in common: Hilary was once married to a man, but manifestly prefers her own gender. They both write poetry too. Between Mar's visits, Hilary sandwiches an interview with two reporters from a literary magazine. This gives Poet-Novelist Sarton, who is just the other side of 53, an excuse to review Hilary's life and attachments (Phillippa the governess, Nurse Gillespie, Willa MacPherson, Dorothea and Madeleine HiRose) and gush about lyrical art ("Intensity commands form"). Absolutely nothing else happens. The title page identifies this book as a novel, Miss...
...George Sarton, The Study of the History of Science. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936 (now in paper back...
Among the works being sold are manuscripts of Archibald MacLeish and William Alfred, paintings by Jack Wolfe and Carl Nelson, and prints by Ben Shahn and Antonio Frasconi. Of particular interest are the manuscripts of Donald Hall and May Sarton, which contain poetry both in final and working drafts...
...short interview given after the reading, Miss Sarton said that she plans to devote herself to poetry for a while and will not write any more prose for at least a year. She will be at Wellesley for the first semester of the coming year and will teach two courses in creative writing, one in poetry and one in the novella. After that she will go to her home in New Hampshire "for five or six months of just plain writing and thinking...