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...prevent her from establishing highly personal and evocative relationships with many of the other poets in this collection. Reviews of such contemporary giants as Robert Lowell, W.H. Auden, and James Merrill demonstrate her awesome sense of poetic familiarity. Part Of Nature, Part Of Us is a party which any reader interested in contemporary verse-making must attend, for Vendler has marshalled the collective talents of the most significant and well-known poets of the 20th century...
Vendler serves as the link between poet and audience; she listens for voices that sound like no one else, and then transmits them to her readers. In an essay on Stevens, entitled "Apollo's Harsher Songs," she isolates the poet's moments of brutality toward himself and his life "because brutality, in Stevens, (and in other poets as well), is usually a sign of extreme discomfort, misery, and self-hatred." Vendler communicates the bitterness and catastrophe that underlie many of his poems to her reader in an educational but unintimidating fashion, quoting from him dexterously--as if Stevens advises...
...characters projects an explanation for his silence: his mother (Elizabeth Norment) thinks someone lied to him; his teacher (Nancy Mayans) thinks he's ill; the principal (John Bottoms) sees it as the silence of a poet; and Mrs. Blade's lover, Chester, who seems to be a regular reader of Existential Digest, ascribes it to despair...
...Author Duncan Norton-Taylor re-creates the person behind these layers of history and ideology. The reader follows young John as he journeys to Paris to study theology, then law, at the expense of the Roman Catholic Church. Reformation is in the air at the Sorbonne; the student undergoes a profound conversion. His new Protestantism is anathema to both church and state and he flees to Switzerland. In Geneva, Calvin becomes the voice of a new moral order; in one dispute he walks off the altar at Easter and is expelled from the city. Moving to Strasbourg, he ministers...
Ultimately. Norton-Taylor shows, it was ideas that ruled Calvin and those around him. In God's Man those ideas are given a human dimension. The reader encounters Calvin's doctrines and doubts tossed in a mind as agonized as his tubercular body. The godfather of capitalism assures a rich man that wealth is part of God's plan rather than a sin-but at the same time condemns gouging employers and supports strikes. In one fascinating intellectual exercise, Norton-Taylor offers his own version of a Calvin text, the reformer arguing with himself in verse about...