Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light of mercy never shines on Akutagawa's parade of adulterers, murderers and bigots, he sometimes seems as cool and distant to human frailty as the grey shale that lines the heights of Fujiyama. But the sources of his own nihilism are made poignantly clear in a poem he penned a few months before his suicide...
...theater last season-and the greatest triumph-was the brilliant, bare-stage reading of Shaw's Don Juan in Hell (TIME, Nov. 5, 1951). Flushed by such success, Producer Paul Gregory has launched a prompt successor: Stephen Vincent Benét's 1929 Pulitzer Prizewinning narrative poem, John Brown's Body. With Charles Laughton again directing and with another name cast-Judith Anderson, Raymond Massey, Tyrone Power-the production opened in California in November, plans to get to Broadway in February. Meanwhile, it is playing one-night stands throughout the U.S. to the tune of such critical...
...Civil War has more to offer than Shaw's dazzling moral debate. It tells an epic, yet hallowed and human story; it treats of divided lovers as well as a divided land. Though not the work of such a great master of stage dialogue as Shaw, the poem pretty well lends itself to stage use, has touching moments, fluid movement, big climaxes. It has also, on the whole, been well condensed...
Every poet runs the risk of being misunderstood; and there are many readers who do not care to make the effort to understand Eliot. But he is never willfully obscure, though his poems are compact of literary allusions, many of which will escape the thinly read. But no reasonably well-educated and sensitive reader can escape the poems' impact and meaning. In The Complete Poems the course he has run becomes clear. It began with satire that expressed something close to contempt for his fellow men. But Eliot survived and surpassed satire. His maturer poems are religious, culminating...
...scarcely noticed even in Britain. It was not always so: once Punch was as well known for its caustic writing and cartoons on the social and political scene as it was for its humor. Punch shocked the world by printing Thomas Hood's "Song of the Shirt," a poem that bitterly described the sweatshops of the Industrial Revolution, and during World War I, Punch's attacks on the Kaiser were so pointed that the Germans put a price on the editor's head. Last week Punch took a long step toward bringing its writing...