Word: poeticize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richard is the boy who wants to right the wrongs of the Social System in a crushing valedictory address, which is interrupted, amid great applause, at the end of a stereotyped preamble. A brilliant, poetic idealist, he gets into trouble with the father of his girl (Cecilia Parker) because he has given her verses by that renegade, Algernon Charles Swinburne. When he believes that she has spurned his love, Richard samples his first kisses and his first drinks in company with a fast-stepping lady from New Haven, who wears flounces, high-laced shoes, low-slung garters...
...Pulitzer Prize announcements was the award of the poetry prize to Audrey Wurdemann, 24-year-old Seattle girl, for her second book. Bright Ambush. While most critics found Miss Wurdemann's verse promising and fluent, it was also characterized as conventional, frail, filled with echoes of stock poetic attitudes and phrases. Last week Miss Wurdemann's third book revealed an attempt to cope with a major theme, relating in varied verse forms the narrative of seven brothers whose lives represented, as they plunged toward their respective dooms, the seven Capital Sins. Beginning with a prolog describing the death...
...partly to the firmly sympathetic touch of Director Henry Hathaway, previously noted for such outdoor works as Lives of a Bengal Lancer, and partly to the presence of Gary Cooper and Ann Harding whose eminently unmystical impersonations correct the narrative's tendency to become shrouded in poetic fantasy...
...South and it begins to look as if New York is the only art center of the nation sufficiently tolerant to allow it. Roland Young is about the only excuse for "A Touch of Brimstone" even if the title is clever. Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset" is a poetic dramatization of the underworld as it looks to our Mr. Anderson; a very touching and quite superior play...
...readers will be sorry that this book was published or at any rate written before the publication of Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral", a dramatic poem in the full meaning of the term. That poem demonstrated, one may venture to suggest, the virtues and vices of Eliot's poetic method. His dramatic monologues--learned and concentrated and imbued with a strange rhythm--never reached a wide audience; they appealed to the widely read expert--the expert in the reading of poetry--in his study; they were not and are not popular poems. On the other hand, poetic names, whether...