Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PEER GYNT?Ibsen's poetic phantasmagoria of self-sufficient compromise, with expressionist settings. Joseph Schildkraut is the braggart Peer, whose age and locality change with equal celerity...
PEER GYNT-Ibsen's poetic phantasmagoria of self-sufficient compromise, with expressionist settings. Joseph Schildkraut is the braggart Peer, whose age and locality change with equal celerity...
...Dorian Abbott--I suspect from the style and tone of his Preface that he is no more than a publisher's blurb--has said officially that the volume did not attempt to be representative. But Mr. Wheelwright declares that seven years of Harvard's poetic output was carefully examined in compiling the volume, in order to assure a just representation of the best work. On the contrary, I believe I represent Harvard opinion when I say that not only do the puerile mouthings of the "Eight More" fail to typify the University; but that poems which do far more justice...
...most successful recent use of expressionism is in the Theatre Guild's production of Ibsen's astonishing poetic drama, Peer Gynt. Full-grown people live in dwarfed houses; deserts are indicated by a suggestion of sand; fjords, oceans, mountains become a pile of cubist rocks and a blue line on the backdrop...
PEER GYNT-Ibsen's poetic phantasmagoria of self-sufficient compromise, with expressionist settings Joseph Schildkraut is the braggart Peer, whose age and locality change with equal celerity...