Search Details

Word: poet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Dorothy Sands, Radcliffe '15, an actress well known on Broadway, has been selected by the Poet's Theatre to play Alcestis, the Thessalian queen who gives her life to save her husband from the vengeance of the gods, in their production of Euripides' tragedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Broadway Actress Selected For Title Role in Alcestis | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...Poet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...soundtrack" of verse accompanying these photographs sometimes runs close to the story they tell, sometimes veers off in its own direction. No photograph in the collection really matches up with Poet MacLeish's main proposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talking Pictures | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...this point Poet MacLeish's verse-commentary develops such an intense poetical potential that its accompanying photographs seem limp beside it. But, next page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talking Pictures | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...Free will probably rate it above Panic and The Fall of the City, But they will feel both worried and baffled. The bafflement they can blame on a hybrid art form that at least is earnestly ambitious, at worst is a humorless bollix. The worry they can blame on Poet MacLeish's extraordinary ability to hit topical points straight on the head with whatever instrument happens to come to hand. The conclusion they will probably draw is that Archibald MacLeish is so much of a poet that even his bad books make good points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talking Pictures | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Previous | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | Next