Word: poems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their emphasis on analysis has created the impression that to know poetry, one must explain it. This has given people the impression that a poem is something to be studied and not something to be enjoyed, he said...
Ordinary readers can get help and enjoyment from the traditional critic who tells what impression a poem makes on him, Muir said. They glean nothing from the critic who says the poem cannot possibly mean what it seems to, and then proceeds to explain...
...Criticism was salutary while it remained only an influence; but it has now become a sanctioned method, and has used this sanction to usurp power," Muir continued. He charged that the method was often used to find so many possible meanings in words or phrases of a poem, it concealed the principal meaning...
...eminently unpublished poet imminently publishing," according to John Mason Brown, Sweeney's study of Henry James' art criticism will be issued in London this summer. His past works include a few essays for "little" magazines, an edition of the writings of Dylan Thomas, and his 1954 Phi Beta Kappa poem "An Arch for Janus." A critical evaluation of directions in modern poetry, written in collaboration with Elizabeth Drew and a few minor poems complete his Widener listing...
...owns works by Bracque, Picasso, Leger, and Gris, he protests, in his self-effacing manner, that "I know nothing about aesthetics as a professional discipline or as a philosophical study. But the experience," he continues, "of making a judgment and enjoying a painting in the Fogg--or reading a poem--has been a vital part of my education...