Word: poeticizing
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Drawing their inspiration from the work of the German romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich, the production team of Lehnhoff and Designer John Conklin created an emotionally resonant mythic landscape. The poetic ruin near which Siegfried encounters the Rhinemaidens in Gotterdammerung, for example, was suggested by Friedrich's Winter, and the staging uses other Friedrich images prominently. It was a back-to-nature approach, a middle ground between the conservative 1975 Seattle Ring, which was strongly influenced by Arthur Rackham's 1910-1911 book illustrations, and the experiments at Bayreuth, which included both Chereau's radical vision and Hall's muddled...
...Hough, 88, journalist, author and environmental conscience who owned, edited and published the Vineyard Gazette, one of America's best country weeklies, from 1920 to 1968 and continued as its editor almost until his death; in Edgartown, Mass., on the offshore island of Martha's Vineyard. Hough's often poetic descriptions of everyday island events and the passing seasons, and his fervent quest to protect the Vineyard from mindless development, brought a steady growth in readership, while his popular book Country Editor (1940), followed by 21 novels, histories, children's tales and collected pieces, spread his fame beyond New England...
...Beats continued poet William Carlos William's search for a uniquely American poetic rhythm and revived the tradition of combining music with poetry readings. The use of rhythms jazz rhythms and along in poetry shocked the literary establishment. Many of the essays here accuse the Beats of confusing mediocrity with spontancity...
...Knows? Many be poetic justice will be served and they won't lose another carnival for the next 27 year
...America's most public poet. Approaching his autumnal years, the man once feared as a weevil in the nation's moral fiber is in a disarming state of equilibrium. Cultural norms have adjusted in Ginsberg's favor since 1956, when he disturbed the peace with Howl. It was a poetic tantrum thrown at the Eisenhower years, at an academic system that rejected his rude unconventionality, at an encompassing conspiracy he imagined had driven his mother and his soul mates crazy. "Moloch! Moloch!" he cried. "Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible madhouses...