Word: whitmanic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shine-/and t0 hdl with everything else!/That is my motto-/and the sun's!" Snatches of exuberant, pure song survive their pedestrian translation and make Mayakovsky sound like a moujik Whitman...
Previous readings have included poets David Ferry, George Starbuck, Firman Houghton, Ruth Whitman, Stephen Sandy, and prose writer Clive T. Miller...
Tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 p.m. Firman Houghton and Ruth Whitman, editors of Audience, will read from their poetry in the Lamont Forum Room...
Houghton has published poetry and prose in Atlantic Monthly, Saturday Review and other magazines. This winter a play by Mr. Houghton will be produced at the Loeb Drama Center; his work is to appear in an anthology published by Random House this fall. Miss Whitman is the Editor of the Wertheim Committee, which publishes books about Labor relations. Her poetry has appeared widely and has been recorded in part for the Harvard Vocarium Library...
...Allen Lannom, to two major works: Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem, and Orff's Carmina Burana. Acting on his premonition of World War II, Vaughan Williams wrote his cantata in 1936, in which he fashioned his text from a phrase of the Roman Mass, sizable excerpts from Walt Whitman (who is full of superlative choral texts), and bits from John Bright and the Bible. Composed with a knowing hand, it lacked only vitality in performance...