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...theme of the new millennium, urban Indians-growing up with several languages and used to juggling cultures and traditions-have an edge over people from, say, a unicultural, often homogeneous Japan. Insofar as English is the global village's lingua franca, voluble, language-loving Indians brought up on Tennyson and Tagore are holding the festivals seldom heard of in Japan. And insofar as the most dominant new force in the world today is computer technology, Indians, famous for both their technological and business skills, are ever more in evidence, even if using Toshiba laptops. Japan may produce our hardware. India...
HAROLD BLOOM, literary critic and author of How to Read and Why: "Ulysses, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, particularly the passage, 'Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'/We are not now that strength which in old days/Moved earth and heaven, that which...
...Crimson was fortunate to be down by only a goal, given that Yale was awarded a penalty stroke with 10:10 left in the half after Harvard goalkeeper Katie Zacarian was called for a foul. Yale senior Erin Tennyson took the stroke to the bottom left corner of the cage, but Zacarian made the diving save...
...Iron Age. If it had been, and if Homer had been succeeded by some litigious heirs, the vast trove of Western literature derived or extrapolated from the Iliad and Odyssey--including Vergil's Aeneid, Dante's Inferno, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, Tennyson's Ulysses, Joyce's Ulysses--might not exist. And what damages would today's judges award Christopher Marlowe? He wrote a wildly popular poem called The Passionate Shepherd to His Love that was answered, in identical verse form, by Sir Walter Raleigh in his The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd. Then...
...things from the The Breakage, and then two sections from his recently published long poem, “Time’s Fool.” Like all the readings organised by the Woodberry Poetry Room, his performance was recorded, and will join the set of recordings, beginning with Tennyson, which are stored in the Lamont library. The sonorous Oxford intonations and deft formal turns of first lyrics he read seemed to place him very nicely in this grand tradition. The slightly diffident, and much more down-to-earth, manner with which he introduced his work?...