Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chen Po, young, pert, Sorbonne-educated, happily-married, explained what "dew wife" means to a Chinawoman, as follows: "Dew only exists in the early morning. . . . Dew, therefore, in Chinese sense, means changeableness, unreliableness and temporariness." Poetic though it sounds, calling a lady a "dew wife" is thus tantamount to hinting that her husband is a cuckold...
...Joseph Duveen has written: "What his portraits reveal is the impression of personal dignity coupled always with charm. The material likeness is there, presented by a sound craftsman; but above all, there is the caste and character discerned by the artist whose eyes are always open to the poetic and imaginative values of his subject...
...talented man, usually young, writes a novel which France's Goncourt Academy immortalizes. This, Author Constantin-Weyer's novel, is the 25th to win the prize. A Man Scans His Past tells a story as much of prairies and snows as of death and love in Canada. Poetic descriptions of nature are lavishly strewn over a French horse-trader's trek from the U. S. to Canada where he sells his herd; then his mush onward by sled and dog, to the frozen Northwest for furs. On the way back death comes to his companion ; and, though...
...Album has certainly kept abreast of the times and though the list of variations on the theme of "depression upon leaving Harvard College" has been pretty well exhausted in bygone odes, hymns, and other poetic tributes there will always be a place for a publication which affords a handy reference book to College as I knew...
Poet Masters is seldom so "poetic" as that. He is more particularly a creator of people in laconic, lead-colored phrases...