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...subject. Edmonia Lewis, the first African-American woman to make her living as a sculptor, was the daughter of a Black father and a Chippewa Indian mother. Longfellow, though his reputation has been eclipsed by that of Walt Whitman in the past century, was the most famous living American poet of his time...
...Young Alan sought glamour in Leeds' double-decker trams, musty mystery in the artifacts of Grandma's parlor. Later he would realize he had a great subject in this gray world. It begged for a wit that evokes nostalgia and distress, and Bennett became its not-quite-lyric poet: the bardof the drab...
That same reticence may keep this most English of writers in London on Oscar night. "I'm not a big traveler," he says. "You know, when the poet Philip Larkin was asked if he'd like to go to Australia, he said, 'I wouldn't mind, if I could come back the same afternoon!'" For George III or the Lady in the Van or Alan Bennett, there's no place like home. It's where one has a modest function...
OSCAR WILDE He's finally memorialized in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner THE WEINSTEIN BROTHERS Their Miramax Films nabs a leading 22 Oscar nominations...
...Private Altars is about more than the strife Vienna is forced to endure; it is about language. In sentence after lush sentence, Mosby is intent on showing the reader that she was primarily a poet before trying fiction. Turn to nearly any page and find an image like this, which describes Vienna's distaste for mundane tea-table conversation: "It was as remote from her interests as the hieroglyphs spewed from the endless coiling tongue of a ticker-tape machine." The trouble is that the accretion of similes sometimes slows the story to a maddening pace. Nevertheless, Mosby's debut...