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Unanimous praise for this selection of Heaney's poems, which "eloquently confirms his status as the most skilful and profound poet writing in English today" (Edward Mendelson, the New York Times Book Review ). The book includes excerpts from his translation of Sophocles and his Nobel lecture, but more important, it features a wide selection of his poems, charting his progress from unknown to Nobel laureate.
A recent program on the Minoan civilization mentioned that Michael Ventris was a teenager when he listened to a lecture by Sir Arthur Evans in which he described his struggles trying to translate what had become known as Linear A and Linear B, the ancient scripts found at Knossos and elsewhere in Crete.
Following good professorial custom, he worked his lecture notes into a book which was published in London in 1937 by Dent, under the title, The Birth of Language , with a subtitle, Its Place in World Evolution and Its Structure in Relation to Space and Time . I was in Wilson's class during the autumn of 1937.
(When I gave an honorific lecture at one prominent department, students there told me that their macroeconomics course did not even mention money until the last two weeks, and never so much as suggested that monetary policy might have anything to do with business cycles.)
(Other examples: magazines generating in-house research for advertisers; free trips for New Yorker writers on an advertiser's cruiseship; and more Vogue hijinks, such as a lecture series at Columbia for advertisers and a Vogue -Tommy Hilfiger party in the Hamptons.)
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