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Books: Disappointing look at life of a poet; Ted Hughes -- The Life of a Poet. By Elaine Feinstein (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 25).(Features)
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Byline: Reviewed by Marianne Nault
Weeks before his death in 1998, Ted Hughes wrote to me about his regrets over publishing Birthday Letters, a series of heartfelt poems about his first wife, the poet Sylvia Plath, who died by her own hand at age 31.
Hughes had remained silent during the decades following her suicide, speaking only to censure those who distorted the facts he refused to reveal.
When his cancer was diagnosed as fatal, the poet laureate decided to publish the tribute he had been writing for 30 years.
His first biographer, ...
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`Arms and Art' embraces the beauty of firearms
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...carving, industrial model design and museum artifact restoration, has mastered the ancient technique of "damascening." In damascening, the engraver chisels deeply into the metal to prepare it for the decorative gilding to follow. Into the...
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Top guns offer an investment that is likely to shoot up
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...sought after by collectors. Also at a premium are guns with damascening, a technique which produces a watered effect in sword blades...contrasting background. With the guns which cost the most, the damascening finishes tend to show no signs of wear as is often the case...
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Antiques and Collecting: Daggers to die for.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...attack on this occasion as the dagger fell into his lap. Target shooting and the weaponry used to do it, powder flasks, damascening (gold inlay) of sword hilts, and the import of firearms from Spain, Egypt and Italy into Arabia are all discussed in...
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Area watchmakers keep on ticking in dwindling hobby
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
; ...polished brass and exquisite engineering. The gears shine, with many of them marked with fine swirls through a process called damascening. The sheer smallness of scale inspires awe, Battista said. "That's why we get so excited over this," Battista said...
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Arts Guide
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...Urns, caskets, mirror frames made in the Spanish workshops of Placido Zuloaga (1834-1910), a master of the art of damascening, the process of inlaying metal objects with designs of gold and silver. Whitechapel Art Gallery, tel: (0171) 522...
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Triumphal finery: Mannerism in the art of Italian armour.(armor)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...that dominates the decoration of so many pieces shown in the exhibition, but rarely do justice to the exquisite chasing and damascening that contribute so much to their brilliant appearance. To appreciate the richness of and splendour of these remarkable works...
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Three notes on swords in Beowulf.(Notes)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; ...Hrunting Klaeber comments, 'ater is perhaps used figuratively with regard to the acid employed in the process of (false) damascening. Another possibility is that the serpentine ornamentation (cf. wyrmfah 1698, also waegsweord 1489) was supposed to have...
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