Traditional cartoons mark the turn of the year with symbolic figures, showing the old year with a long white beard, hunched and weary, and the new year as a happy toddler. John Dryden (1631-1700) goes further than that in the engaging chorus at the end of his "Secular Masque." In this masque (a... -
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Traditional cartoons mark the turn of the year with symbolic figures, showing the old year with a long white beard, hunched and weary, and the new year as a happy toddler. John Dryden (1631-1700) goes further than that in the engaging chorus at the end of his "Secular Masque." In this masque (a...-
By Robert Pinsky