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Your Aug. 3 Korean story, "The Way the Ball Bounces," was the letter home I've been trying to write since I arrived in Korea last March. Thanks for doing the job so completely...
...Arts. Composers, according to Dr. Lehman, write their best symphonies and songs between 30 and 34 (this would cover few of Schubert's songs, since he died at 31; it includes Beethoven's Eroica, but not his Ninth). Chamber music and grand opera written between 35 and 39 have achieved the greatest fame. Wagner wrote Tannhäuser and Lohengrin in his 30s, and by 40 was working on The Ring. Verdi was a clear exception. He churned out 25 operas by the time he was 58, then went into semiretirement. Meanwhile, Wagner's fame soared...
Poetry clearly needs the inspiration of youth. The best odes, by Dr. Lehman's reckoning, are written between 24 and 28, pastoral and narrative poems and elegies from 25 to 29, sonnets and lyric poems a year or two later. Notwithstanding Bernard Shaw, who started to write plays around 40, most dramatists do their best in their 30s: comedies from 32 to 36 (e.g., Shakespeare's As You Like It), tragedies from 34 to 38 (Hamlet and Racine's Iphigénie). Novelists are most likely to hit the jackpot between...
name-Robert Penn Warren, a poet of proven gifts (Thirty-Six Poems, Selected Poems, 1923-1943), took more than seven years, off & on, to write this book. But for all the labor and the love he spent, it is a narrative poem which almost never achieves the emotional disturbance and enlightenment of true poetry, is too often content with such smothering lines...
...night a small-town cop in South Africa got drunk and took a black woman into the bushes. This, in plain words, is the subject of Alan Paton's second novel, Too Late the Phalarope. However, as readers of his first novel well know. Author Paton does not write in plain words. The prose in Cry, the Beloved Country sounded to some like the language of a very gifted high-school senior who has cried Tom Wolfe once too often. To others, especially to those who were not disturbed to find the rhythms of the King James Version forced...