Word: poeticize
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...communion. This idea binds together a sheaf of reflections on the nature, meanings, and ends of painting by TIME's Art Editor Alexander Eliot (Three Hundred Years of American Painting). Highly personal, aphoristic, poetic, Sight and Insight shuns critical pedantries in art to speak of bigger things-life and death, God and man, the wisdom of children, the power of dreams, love, fate, and the human soul...
...many English concentrators and others in literature courses often find themselves lacking sufficient background in Biblical and classical lore to appreciate many illusions and mythical themes in the works at hand. For students who are foggy on the Song of Solomon or the Odyssey, an introduction to these basic poetic works in English translation might be a valuable preface to Spenser, Milton, and Joyce...
...seemed a noble enough theme for Negro Poet Edouard Glissant's La Lezarde. The murder of a young Martinique native and the accidental killing of the murderer's girl friend, who is then devoured by the murderer's own dogs, might even be construed to symbolize poetic justice. But literary justice miscarried when Glissant got a prize; critics thought him an intriguing but inept writer...
True in feeling, Requiem is sometimes hollow in logic. Temple's behavior is baffling except in terms of innate depravity. Nancy's sinner-into-saint switch is an abuse of poetic license. But to a theater often governed by the spirit of commerce, Faulkner has brought a play whose commerce is solely with the human spirit in its torment, in its aspirations, and in its vagrant moments of nobility...
...fiction's suavest purple-people greeter. In this collection of short stories, his literary reception line includes Martians, Venusniks, mermaids and sundry oddball Earthlings. What the tales have in common is the spectral dread of a Charles Addams cartoon, a twist of O. Henry, and an occasionally vivid poetic image that some readers regard as Bradburied treasure...