Biography EssayRobert Graves may well be remembered as the preeminent minor poet of the twentieth century. He would not be disturbed by the label. "Nothing," he said in his sixties in a lecture on the...
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The English poet Robert Graves (1895-1985) was also a very productive novelist, mythographer, critic and historian, with over 130 books to his credit. He was once nominated for the Nobel Prize.Robert ...
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Robert Graves may well be remembered as the preeminent minor poet of the twentieth century. He would not be disturbed by the label. "Nothing," he said in his sixties in a lecture on the legitimate cri...
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Robert Graves's reputation must rest chiefly on his poetry and historical fiction; as an essayist he is extremely uneven. His essays are generally polemical, frequently eccentric. As a literary critic...
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On his death in 1985 The Times of London wrote of Robert Graves: "He will be remembered for his achievements as a prose stylist, historical novelist and memoirist, but above all as the great paradigm ...
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Critical Essay by John Coleman
When it arrives—and, by some minor miracle of audiophonics, it does—the throaty clamour indicated by the title of Jerzy Skolimowski's latest excurs...
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Critical Essay by Andrew Sarris
[The Shout] reminded me more of early [Joseph Losey-Harold Pinter] than of the Skolimowski responsible for Bariera [Barrier] and Deep End. Most people seemed to like t...
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Critical Essay by William Johnson
The Shout was not the most inventive, the most beautiful or the most crisply made entry in the last New York Film Festival, but I found it by far the most engrossing...
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Critical Essay by Sheila Benson
The Shout is a film of magic, terror and sensuality; it seduces you through your eyes and ears while keeping your mind spinning with the strands of its intricate story...
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It's what kids do: squeal in delight when they're having fun.But to some Long Island residents those squeals were unwelcome noise, and they wanted two neighborhood girls playing in a backyard pool ...
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A 57-year-old woman sustained serious injuries Wednesday after
getting her hand caught in the doors of a train at a station in
Hadano, Kanagawa Prefecture, and being dragged nearly 40 meters ...
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Plainclothes police kicked their
way into a Roman Catholic church in eastern Cuba, beat and used
pepper spray on a group of dissidents, a priest said
Wednesday. The incident too...
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Plainclothes police kicked their
way into a Roman Catholic church in eastern Cuba, beat and used
pepper spray on a group of dissidents, church officials and
rights activists sai...
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The big dogs of publishing might have Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club, but the little ones have indie rock. Unclear when the flirtation became a marriage, but the benefit concert held Sunday night ...
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James Toney removed his nylon running suit, walked by the row of cameras and strode confidently to the scale."234," Don King yelled out.And that represented the first of what Toney hopes is a pair ...
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When the next big earthquake hits this fault-carved city, a grimy elevated highway slicing across its waterfront could come tumbling down on thousands of commuters.This disastrous scenario has made...
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It's what kids do: Squeal in delight when they're having fun. But to some Long Island residents, those squeals are unwelcome noise and they want two neighborhood girls to pipe down when they're pla...
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With cockfighting about to lose its last bastion in the United States, animal rights activists are training their sights on Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory where the blood sport is both beloved tradi...
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