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Cornel Adam Lengyel
Cornel Adam Lengyel (January 2, 1914 – March 12, 2003) is the author of many highly acclaimed books, among them Four Days in July, The Creative Self, and Late News From Adam’s Acres. His literary honors include fellowships at the Macdowell Colony, the Hartford Foundation, the Ossabaw Island Project; the DiCastagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America; a National Endowment for the Arts Award.
Comments on Cornel Adam Lengyel’s Poetry:
“Powerful poems, they are refreshing in every sense of the word—in the mastery displayed by their craftsmanship, in their simplicity of language and in the depth of their philosophy.”
—John Waddington-Feather
“Faultless in form and substance...”
—George Santayana
“It contains an extraordinary variety of emotional moods as well as technical devices, and each poem makes a distinctive impact.”
—Northrop Frye
In Memoriam: Santayana
Of all with whom I shared a common sky
none told this truth with more persuasive art
on those high themes whose burden makes us men
than one who spoke in dialogues from limbo.
Far voyager in the realm of disenchantment,
cartographer of countries of the mind,
late messenger from the golden age of Hellas,
ironic dreamer, skeptic saint, glad seer:
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