Word: stoicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...POETRY AND POWER, edited by Edwin Glikes and Paul Schaber. A collection of poems inspired by the death of President Kennedy. The contributors and their feelings range from religious poetry through existential stoicism to beat anger...
...POETRY AND POWER, edited by Edwin Glikes and Paul Schaber. A collection of poems written about the death of President Kennedy. The contributors and their feelings range from religious poetry through existential stoicism to beat anger...
What saves Scott's poems from sentimentality or empty despair is an astringent stoicism. One of his children breaks a shell that Scott has treasured since childhood...
...truly simple man, but often seems to have achieved something closer to the contrived spontaneity of the method actor. The exactions of pride were made tolerable by an equally vast joviality-a humor that could be gentle or sardonic, and served as mask, armor and weapon of his severe stoicism...
Every eschatology, Brandon concludes, is an effort by man to provide himself with "spiritual security" against the passage of time. Unlike the lower animals, which live only in the present moment, man is conscious of time, and thus of death. Stoicism and Epicureanism-faiths for the Greco-Roman intellectual elite-accepted death as the final end to life with equanimity. But man generally has rebelled against this kind of blunt pragmatism, instinctively seeking "some state in which he will be secure from the everlasting menace of time's destructive logic." Brandon tacitly admits that he has some trouble juggling...