Word: poetical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book* by romantic, poetic, enthusiastic, sparkling, dauntless, bubbling, impetuous, adventurous, dramatic, enthralling, etc. Playboy Richard Halliburton begins with a "Crash! The lightning in a rage split the writhing firmament from Thessaly to the Cyclades in one blazing, blinding glare. Streaks of fire burst into the inky darkness, inflaming the abyss about me and lashing at the clouds that hurtled past...
...this hazardous and admirable journey is a notebook of 90 chaotic pages in which Coleridge was accustomed to scrawl the names of books which he had read or intended to read, ideas which he considered shaping into verse, recipes for ginger-wine and other paraphernalia of a profound and poetic intellect...
...underclassman there appears possible some poetic justice in the announcement that from May 1 until Commencement all Seniors in good standing will wear their caps and gowns while in attendance at classes. But steady observation has led this writer at least to the deduction that (1) either there are less than forty men graduating from Harvard College this year or (2) a Senior in good standing is an anachronism. Have caps and gowns come to the position of straw hats--that they are left in the sanctity of Yard bedrooms...
Whether Blake was insane or a very great genius will, perhaps, never be decided. Yet, whatever he may have been, his art, whether poetic or decorative, is certainly strange and not over restrained. In fact his drawings have a technique which--pardon the confusion of arts--suggests the spirit of his verse; verse which is rather primitivistic and either a rough diamond of genius or semi-incoherent whisperings of incipient insanity as you choose to look at it. In any case they are out of the ordinary, and well worth a trip to the Boston Fine Arts Museum...
...grin. Lajos Luria, author of The Comic, prefaced this work as follows: "Lajos Luria is the pseudonym of one of Europe's most successful present day dramatists, used by him only when writing comedies and plays of a much lighter vein than his more serious dramatic and poetic works...