Word: critics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poet Y. Critic...
...Critic John Ciardi's boorish assault on Anne Lindbergh's verse [Feb. 18] sounds suspiciously like the hysterical protest of one who fears that readers may be lured away from the jabberwocky school of modern verse, of which he considers himself the grand high panjandrum...
Poetry should be judged qua poetry, not by the name in the upper left-hand corner of the MS.-so orchids to one John Ciardi for his criticism of Anne Lindbergh's poetry. In The Unicorn, as in all her other books, she sees and thinks and feels with monotonous regularity. She may be a splendid person, but she's a lousy poet. Critic Ciardi is so right, and I'm glad he had the courage to speak...
...Tour's style, De Young Director Walter Heil says: "It is almost an abstract realism." Wrote French Critic Andreé Malraux: "No other painter, not even Rembrandt, can so well suggest that vast, elemental stillness; La Tour alone is the interpreter of the serene that dwells in the heart of darkness...
...then, perhaps he hasn't really written a play. A critic reportedly once chastised Bernard Shaw for never having presented a death scene on the stage, whereupon GBS replied by writing the drawn-out, harrowing affair which takes up most of the last act of The Doctor's Dilemma. Possibly acting on the theory that he could prove himself a greater playwright than Shaw, McLiam has put together a death scene that lasts for three out of three acts and that gives James Barton, who plays Pat Muldoon, the opportunity to die not once, but twice. For a play which...