Word: poeticizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American imagination has become the most powerful stream of Western thought and culture," declared London's Times Literary Supplement last week in a weighty (28 articles) survey of U.S. culture. The U.S. architecture is "poetic, structural, febrile." Abstract art now powerfully expresses U.S. imagination-"sometimes grotesque, often naive, but never pale, never passive." Realism, by contrast, seems now "like a political party defeated in a landslide." As for U.S. patrons: "No social group in history has been so willing to spend money on the arts and sciences...
MacLeish plans to compare Dickinson's poetic achievements to those of Yeats, Rousseau, and Keats in the remaining four lectures of his current series, "Poetry and Experience." He will attempt to establish that Dickinson's world is the private world, Yeat's the public, Rousseau's the artistic, and Keats's the arable...
Translation is the customs office of poetry. Nothing is more difficult to smuggle into another language and culture than a unique poetic gift. The latest poet of distinction to be hampered, though not stopped, at the literary customs barrier is Nobel Prizewinner Boris Pasternak...
...this faithfully wrought translation by Russian-born Eugene Kayden, professor emeritus of economics at the University of the South, more than a glint of Pasternak's poetic genius filters through; whole stanzas blaze with life and passion. But, since Pasternak frequently relies on a fusion of images and sounds, perhaps only an inspired fellow poet could devise sensuously idiomatic English equivalents. In Translator Kayden's rhymes, Pasternak's lyric song is sometimes reduced to schoolboy singsong...
...poet of so personal a vision was almost certain to be apolitical, but Pasternak was never so swathed in poetic contemplation as not to recognize the hell around him. If his images for it are oblique, they are nonetheless powerful...