Word: didacticism
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In dramatic terms, Ghelderode is the antithesis of Brecht. Ghelderode trusted in instinct; Brecht worshiped intellect. Brecht called for a didactic theater of ideology; Ghelderode scorned ideologies and celebrated the theater of magic, spectacle and mystery. He saw all men divided and torn on a Manichaean battleground of darkness and...
Sir: The reviewer of The Wobblies [July 7] took me through iambic, pentameter, didactic, hortatory, diffident, progenitor, detestation, existentialism, scintilla, quixotic, schematic, protagonist, bourgeois, onomatopoetically, proletariat, crux, status quo, ante, minimal, prosody, recalcitrant, quiescent, ideologically, ascendancy, coalesce, dactyl and elegiac. But what, pray, is a bindle stiff? Is it possible...
Sir: Once again TIME has done a commendable job in dealing with today's youth in the cover story "The Hippies" [July 7]. TIME "told it like it is" without shaking a didactic finger at the hippies.
Anne herself left no explanation of why or how, with this full life, she wrote poetry, but write it she did-reams of it, in relentless iambic pentameter. It was dourly didactic, endlessly hortatory: "Come, come, I'll show unto thy sense,/ Industry hath its recompense." Some of it...
Velvet Verse. After three centuries, time has tossed up just such a poet in John Berryman, whose Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, published in 1956, is one of the best long poems in English since Eliot's Four Quartets. He knew Anne's limitations: . . . all this bald abstract didactic...