1957:
Professor A.J. Arberry,
professor of Arabic in Pembroke College, Cambridge, visited Dun Karm and
was impressed by the poet’s personality and the poems he wrote. Profs.
Arberry published the book “Dun Karm – Poet of Malta” which was a
collection of 36 poems by Dun Karm translated to English, a book which
was presented to Dun Karm on his 90th. birthday: “When I met
Dun Karm he had recently entered upon his eighty-seventh year. I found
him, a frail old man, but still in full possession of his great mental
faculties. Wearing the soutane of the priesthood, with the crucifix on his
breast, he made a powerful impression of true Christian humility… He
offered me a glass of wine and we conversed amiably for over an hour… It
seemed to me then… that this was a poet of more than local importance, his
art and his message must reach the world, to which they truly belonged… I
became increasingly convinced of his greatness.” |
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