Word: honig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concentrated effort to open all his senses wide and yet his impressions bypass his mind and go right to his pen; it is a clarity that a weaker spirit might have intellectualized into obscurity. His best moments come when he makes true what the soon-to-depart Mr. Honig has said of him--"(Lorca) is above all a realistic sensualist who must have the secret of light bare...
...experimental playwrights are, at best, perfunctory. As in two of the undergraduate plays presented at Yale, the characters may be little more than convenient figures from mythology--Greek, in the case of Princeton's Reflections, (by Wayne Lawson), or Christian, in Swarthmore's Walk the Circle (by Werner Honig). Sometimes, as in Mary Manning's fine adaptation of Joyce's Finnegans Wake, which was staged by Mount Holyoke, the characters are not recognizable people...
...advanced courses are English Fb, which will be given by Edwin Honig, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition, and concern short fiction and poetry; English Xb, to be given in two sections, by Gerald W. Brace, visiting professor of English and Monroe Engel, assistant professor of English, and concerning long fiction or personal narrative; and English Yb, playwrighting, to be given by Robert H. Chapman, assistant professor of English...
...most important thing about Honig's skill as a poet is that it is unobtrustive. He cannot afford to let flights of technical proficiency distract his readers from the spectacles of the moral circus that he is showing them, and so he keeps himself the lens through which they observe. When he distorts it is to clarify or magnify the hidden part in which he feels the meaning lies, never to call direct attention to his own feelings or flaunt stylistic achievement. In this record of the greatest show on earth the poet breaks his reserve only...
...Honig's willingness to treat the carnival of humanity on a moral level and his remarkable wit and facility in doing so give his poems a strange quality that is at once disturbing, provocative, and entertaining. They are not more exercises with words and meanings, nor are they pedogogical recitals of moral truth. They are experience, and like all things true their connotations are deep, direct, and mysterious...