Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throughout this amazing book, we are constantly aware of the poetic nature of its subject. We realize, possibly, that Marie Bashkirtseff was a genius, that her works should have their place in the British Museum, the Musee de Luxembourg, and the Nice Museum. For one who has not read the Bashkirtseff Diaries, "Fountains of Youth" presents a tantalizing attraction. For the reader who has, Miss Creston offers perhaps a slightly new interpretation of the bare facts. She flavors the words of the young artist with a beauty and poetry of her own which tend to enhance the value...
YOUNG ROBERT-George Albee-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). Appealing tale about the hell-raising poetic son of a fabulous San Francisco clan...
...Murder in the Cathedral", while leaving one a little confused over its general aim and import, at the same time delights through the rich variety of its mingled intellectual, poetic, and dramatic offerings. The theme is that of a proud man. Thomas a Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, seeking and winning martyrdom. But interlarded with this central stuff are a chorus of sombre monks and another of wailing women who at one point rival 'the witches of "Macbeth' in their catalogue of the disgusting; paeans of religious fervor including an intellectual indictment of atheism; and, most daringly ingenious...
...complete sell-out for the performances of T. S. Eliot's poetic drama "Murder in the Cathedral", Friday and Saturday, has resulted in arrangements for two additional 9 o'clock performances in the Fogg Art Museum on Monday and Tuesday evenings...
NIGHTWOOD-Djuna Barnes-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Extremely unusual novel, a poetic parable in terms of Lesbian tragedy. Those who are not frightened off by T. S. Eliot's introduction ("it took me . . . some time to come to an appreciation of its meaning as a whole") probably will be by Author Barnes herself ("I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find...