Word: poeticize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poets are willing to die before their time; though his Muse is not as young as she was, Poet Yeats still invites her to his board. His latest collation was slim pickings-a one-act play, a dozen poems, a few pages of commentary-compared to the poetic feasts he used to set forth...
Last week Joseph Auslander's chief claim to newspaper fame was his wife. Audrey Wurdemann, who had just won the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The Pulitzer Prize has never come his way, but Poet Auslander has been poeticizing for years, is much better known than his newcomer wife. To some readers of his verse, it may even seem that he has been writing poetry since before he was born. His facile images and garrulous lines show versifying talent often, poetic mastery never...
...heard of him) takes him much less seriously than the unfortunate typesetters who have to follow his rocketing, pinwheeling copy. Whether Poet Cummings has started a tradition of his own is a question that only posterity will answer. To his own day he looks like a one-man poetic party. As leftwing, literarily, as they come, he is antipolitical; he pulls rude but only partly understandable faces at Communists, New Dealers and GOPartisans alike. Poet Cummings' typographical cavortings are so extreme that even his best critical friends have a hard time defending him from the natural suspicion of being...
...study of Wordsworth's poetic decline such as Dean Sperry's has long been needed, for nearly every other previous critic has been the "man of a thesis," as the French say; that is, with Professor Herbert Reed, for example, Annette Vallon was the all-sufficient reason while others have averred that it was Wordsworth's adoption of Tory principles after his disgust with the French Revolution due to the invasion of Switzerland. "The Ecclesiastical Sonnets" are indeed sorry stuff after the "Tintern Abbey," the "Prelude" and the "Ode on Intimations of Immortality." "In fact," as a CRIMSON editor...
...Wordsworth's dismal anti-climax, giving in every case the devil his due and showing what facts each ignores. His own belief is, that Wordsworth in embracing the sensationalist psychology from Hartly, out of Locke and Hume, was pursuing a course detrimental to the continuation and enhancement of his poetic powers and the Dean gives his reasons lucidly and even persuasively...