Word: poeticizing
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...stern poetic thought publicly expanding recklessly imaginative mathematical inventiveness, openmindedness unconditionally superfecundating nonantagonistical hypersophisticated interdenominational interpenetrabilities. This pyramid of words, each one a letter longer than the one above, is a snowball sentence. Read with care, from top to bottom, it actually makes sense. As difficult to compose as they are to pronounce, sentences like these are common coinages of OuLiPo-an abbreviation of Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (Workshop of Potential Literature). OuLiPo's 17 members - all Paris-based writers and scientists - meet once a month at well-lubricated lunches to discuss the creation of new literary...
...undiluted pleasures of the Bicentennial year has been the multiple revivals of the plays of Tennessee Williams. The best of these dramas pos sess poetic eloquence, humanistic compassion and arresting vitality. It is to be hoped that one of these years the judges in Stockholm will confer upon Williams the Nobel Prize for Literature, which has been accorded to only one U.S. play wright, Eugene O'Neill...
...true translation, insists the Bible Society's Eugene A. Nida. The Living Bible is "interested in what the author intended. We are interested in what he said." This does not mean word-for-word translation. Says one project expert, "There is no way to translate the Hebrew poetic form into decent English." The modernizers did, however, preserve the meaning of every sentence. Besides its readable style, the Good News Bible helps readers along with explanatory notes, and it is graced with 500 stylized line drawings by Swiss Artist Annie Vallotton...
...another job, tired, overburdened, who cannot live on his poetry and who is in danger of clinging to it out of self-esteem." For almost half a century he has been as consistently prolific a critic and commentator as he has been a poet. The range of his non-poetic work embraces a Communist polemic, Forward From Liberalism, that was chosen in 1936 as the book of the month by the British Left Book Club, as well as an account in The God that Failed of his subsequent disillusionment with the Party. He has written a wide variety of books...
Director Joseph Wilkins, rumored to be assuming a new name after the show closes, has chosen to do Richard Wilbur's poetic translation in a twentieth century setting. The light, witty eighteenth century elegance of Wilbur's heroic couplets is totally out of place and soon becomes tiresome droning. Add to this a genuinely ugly set that is half a caricature of art deco and half a clumsy imitation of seventies Manhattan townhouse elegance. Pile on costumes that range from late Victorian decadent fopperty to Gatsby-esque knickers and then to late sixties hippy uniforms. This confusion...