Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ancient poet Horace said, "Dulcy est desipere in loco...
...Touch of the Poet is the surviving granddaddy of the five destroyed plays that chronicled the doings of an Irish-American family, 1818-1932. Enemies of O'Neill will probably claim A Touch of the Poet could have met a fate similar to its offspring--with no serious loss to the American theatre. But real O'Neill buffs, and our numbers will not be diminished by Harold Clurman's sensitive mounting of it, will find A Touch of the Poet a poignant piece of theatre...
...used it. Yet it's hard to describe this drama, which treads the edge of melodrama with such sure steps, in any other way. People have come to expect from O'Neill the thundering savagery of fallen men in conflict with themselves. But A Touch of the Poet belongs to two women and their story is a fragile...
There are standard gripes you can make: A Touch of the Poet is long, unwieldy, even dull at times. But it is O'Neill no matter and a stunning array of talent. There is no mistaking that...
...third, o from the fourth, u from the fifth. Franz Kafka was hopelessly drawn to the letter k. Kierkegaard, the father of existentialism, would drop such remarks as, "I am as reflexive as a pronoun," or, "I feel like a letter printed backward in the line." The French poet Louis Aragon spoke for many bedeviled writers in his poem entitled "Suicide...