Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sponsoring the production, which will take place in Fogg Museum March 19 and 20, is the newly formed undergraduate group, the Harvard Poet's Theatre. The organization is the first club of its kind devoted to popularizing the modern poetic drama in this country...
...Tinker has been honored by Yale ever since 1903. His greatest work has concerned Dr. Johnson and his circle. Mr. Tinker's subject has not yet been announced, but it is to be hoped that, although his own mid-eighteenth century may be too prosy for the purpose of poetic lectures, he will manage to distill a little of the dry Boswell-Johnsonian wisdom into his remarks. There is every possibility that the S. R. O. sign will be hung out for Mr. Tinker as it was for Robert Frost...
THESE two books show that Mr. Auden's poetic talent is still prolific, but its direction is as confused as ever. The first is a play, the prose passages of which are written by Mr. Isherwood, a young British author who has won some fame as translator of Bandelaire's journals and as the creator of one of the nastiest characters in contemporary fiction. Despite the high rhetoric of the verse, and the crisp, business-like tone of the prose, the play is essentially unsuccessful, at least in the study. Whether it may act well is another question, which...
Sadly enough, it is Mr. Anderson who is at fault. Those who look upon him as the standard-bearer of poetic drama should be distressed, and justly so, by this, his latest work. Around the sordid scandal of Mayerling he has woven a dashingly domantic fliction, full of florid gestures, plots and counterplots, saved from melodramatic banality only by its insistence on the eternal antithesis between power and justice. The liberal Crown Prince Rudolph schemes to seize the throne from Franz-Joseph, his father, in order to relieve the oppressed people, but even as his coup d'etat succeeds...
...half-breed children, is a story which has no surprises for those familiar with the Medea legend, or even readers of Joseph Hergesheimer's almost identical narrative, Java Head (1919). An eager minority of the play's first audience impulsively applauded the more ringing of poetic Playwright Anderson's soliloquies, went home satisfied that they had seen and heard an-other Mary of Scotland, another eloquent Anderson sermon about the depths of human love and human perfidy. Less impressionable people found Playwright Anderson off form this time, deplored his tendency toward purple prolixity wished he might comb...