Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...detailed presentation of the milieu, quite in the manner of "Main Street". The story in the "Translation from the Navajo", despite the author's agreeable lightness of touch, and gift for fanciful invention, is well-high lost in the atmosphere. The sentiment of the verses headed "Amnesia" is poetic and apparently sincere, the technical frame-work is successful; but here the impression is impaired by a too highly colored wordiness. The setting is best managed in "The Walloping Window Blind", with admirable restraint and with something of Conrad's feeling for the terror of remote seas. One of the least...
...book on the problem of living, written with a poetic beauty that does-not detract from its soundness. As entirely original contribution is the field of psychoanalysis...
...best of the poetry is in the first stanza of Mr. Morrison's unnamed poem and Mr. Behn's "Mid-Day". Mr. Morrison's truly poetic thought is spent in his first stanza, whereas "Mid-Day" is more "consistent. "To Teon Apostate" has rhetorical possibilities with more of a philosophical message than the rest. "I Spent a Day in Dreamland" by A. M. Dobson is a pretty musical rhyme with just a little wastefulness at the end. It is pleasant to read but leaves no splendorous impression. The "Rondeau" and "Vacation Rain" by a single author are pessimistic bits, flung...
...doctrine of poetry in a way that has not destroyed the poetry of her meters. At times wonderful lines flash out of the tides of her poetry; and many of her poems have a deep and human import and have a creative and fusing spirit of a fine poetic...
...attain "that willing suspension of disbelief which is the essence of poetic faith" if, upon opening a book, one finds flung in his face marginal comment after marginal comment, like so many name plates...