Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In this respect I must differ from most people, at least most people around Cambridge. They know the whys and whats or everything, at least almost everything. I don't suppose many of them could tell me just why "Bozo" Snyder and "Sliding" Billy Watson are the leaders in that...
This time these theatrical rum-runners are going to smuggle into our dry dramaturgic desert some strong stuff from Russia and give us for once a draught of the newer Russian vintage. Heretofore most of us have had a chance to taste Russian drama only through the beautiful but already...
Stuart Sherman has still the faith of many true students of contemporary literature. If he has not guided modern genius completely, if he has not dissuaded all from following false gods, if he has occasionally followed them himself, he has at least maintained a certain aloofness from the ridiculous. And...
For, indeed, those writers who are so muddled by the mechanical multiplicity and confusion of existence as to be blind to the simple which is beneath all the confusion will never, can never expect to keep live in literature. The clever, and this is a generation of the clever, are...
In creating a life fellowship for Robert Frost, by the terms of which he has merely to remain in residence at Ann Arbor and write poetry, the University of Michigan has done an excellent piece of work. The esoteric quality of poetry precludes any great financial returns, and since the...