Critical Essay by Judith Moffett
Divine Comedies is the watershed book of James Merrill's life as a poet. Characterized by resolution and reconciliation and by Proustian recall, it is his most...
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Critical Essay by Clara Claiborne Park
[Divine Comedies: Poems] is a verse not orphaned but fully parented in the flesh and the spirit, suckled, if not by Woolf, by a crowd of others. Yeats and Steve...
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Critical Essay by Phoebe Pettingell
Ouija? Heavenly messengers? Their appearance will not surprise readers of Merrill's Divine Comedies (1976). In that work, the poet told of bizarre communica...
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Critical Essay by Helen Vendler
In [Divine Comedies], where most of the poems have a narrative emphasis, Merrill succeeds in expressing his sensibility in a style deliberately invoking Scheherazade&#...
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Rodin's The Thinker has sat at the entrance to the Detroit Institute of Arts for decades, welcoming generations of visitors to one of the nation's largest fine arts museums.Now, for the first time ...
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Roberto Benigni was reciting a page from Dante's poem on love and the afterlife when he thought hell had come to Earth.Shots rang out Tuesday night as the Oscar-winning actor-director was performin...
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Question 1 of 10:Which order of monks was established in 1209 under the direction of a pacifist, nature-loving saint?The Benedictine
The Franciscan
The CistercianThe DominicanQuestion 2 of 10:Which...
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London (dpa) - Liverpool, the British port city of Beatles' fame,
was Friday preparing for the party of a lifetime to celebrate its
12-month reign as this year's European Ca...
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Brussels (dpa) - The case of the European Commission versus
software titan Microsoft is already set to go down in history as one
of the most complex cases the European Union...
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Even on "The Sopranos," Michael Imperioli never had a co-star like this one: a bird with shiny black plumage topped by a bright red comb.Dino is a fighting rooster in Mike Batistick's "Chicken," a ...
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Blockbuster exhibitions are defined by their scope and scale. A staggering array of objects meant to illuminate the accomplishments of an artist, culture or epoch has become the norm—at least...
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Blockbuster exhibitions are defined by their scope and scale. A staggering array of objects meant to illuminate the accomplishments of an artist, culture or epoch has become the norm—at least...
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There are no crosses in Makoto Fujimura's paintings. No images of Jesus gazing into the distance, or serene scenes of churches in a snow-cloaked wood.Fujimura's abstract works speak to his evangeli...
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There are no crosses in Makoto Fujimura's paintings. No images of Jesus gazing into the distance, or serene scenes of churches in a snow-cloaked wood.Fujimura's abstract works speak to his evangeli...
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Critical Essay by Judith Moffett
The Thinker summers near Grand Rapids
