Word: imagist
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...Sunday things picked up again with a battery of good shows. Camera Three dealt sensitively with the imagist poetry of Dylan Thomas; Omnibus approached the end of its best TV season with a technically superb visit to Harvard University that featured a strong supporting cast of such alumni as Massachusetts' U.S. Senators Leverett Saltonstall and John Kennedy, Johns Hopkins' Vice President Dr. Barry Wood, and Composer Leonard Bernstein. Later Max Liebman contributed another of his spectaculars, Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl: it had a fine satiric idea (U.S. career girls, past and present), a talented cast (Bert...
...library used income from a bequest of the American imagist poet, Amy Lowell, to purchase the manuscripts from the poet's grandson, Sir Charles Tennyson. Three-fourths of the approximately 650 drafts of the poems are in Tennyson's own handwriting...
...expressions should combine the formal unity of classicism with the freedom of the Romantics. He has applied this criterion to his criticism of painting, sculpture, and literature, but feels that his background is insufficient for a detailed commentary on music. Creative efforts of his own are only literary; his imagist poetry has been widely acclaimed and The Green Child, an allegorical novel, is considered brilliant...
Williams, who is considered an outstanding imagist poet, is the author of "Paterson, I & II," "Al Quo, Quiere," "In the American Grain," and "White Mule...
...practice is currently labeled "functionalism." The same label can be applied to the literary practice of certain contemporary poets whose poems, like "functionalist" buildings, are constructed with a marked weather eye on the modern living conditions they are meant to reflect or relieve. As distinct from the Symbolist, Surrealist, Imagist or Metaphysical poets, who seem to borrow from Music, Psychology, Painting and Mathematical Physics their respective poetic first principles, these poets seem to borrow theirs from the demotic art of Architecture. Most dazzling of the lot, yet slyest, is W. H. Auden; sincerest and slickest, Stephen Spender; most headlong, most...