Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussed and probably overrated "Lifiom". The hero, who, though an Irishman, is not a villain, goes to Heaven and completes a terrestrial romance with the soda-fountain lady of his dreams. Such is the plot, by far the least interesting part of the story. Much more important is a poetic, and even mystic, conception of great magnitude; every man's Heaven is a reflection of his Earth. Thus, Lorenzo the Magnificent beholds the dwelling of God as a vast, shining palace; the Egyptian slave beholds it as a sanctuary of a wordless mystery; Herlighy, from Eighth avenue, beholds...
...Morrison's essay, "The City of Mice", like all of his work that I have seen, is beautifully written. It really succeeds in its intention of exalting the ridiculous to the sublime. The author has breathed new life into the bygone idiom of poetic prose, and made it his own. Something should come of this. Mr. Hathaway, in his "Recollections of Reality", enlisted my sympathies with a corkscrew, and then began to alienate them with trout flies. Personally, I have always shunned as tedious any discussion of the superfluous and objectionable passion for hooking fish. But Mr. Hathaway broke down...
...story of the red path of hatred, the gradual poisoning of a man's mind and body and soul. And yet, with all his singular craft and dark poetic power, Mr. Freeman is not entirely convincing here...
...shattered statue in the desert, bearing this inscription, inspired Shelley with poetic irony. How much greater must the irony have seemed to the excavators in Professor Reisner's expedition, when they brought to light on the Upper Nile a long dynasty of ancient monarchs, kings of Ethiopia for four centuries, now forgotten for more than two thousand years. Archaeology is generally considered as dry as the dust in which it works; but the account of Professor Reisner's discoveries just made public by the University, tells a romantic story. Here is a subject ready to the hand of a sentimental...
...first place, Mr. Benet has instilled into his writing a lively, easy style that swings along in great form. His descriptive ability is of high calibre, and the book is vividly colored as a result of his careful observation and, we suppose, also from his training in forming poetic images. The poems that are interspersed here and there have a pleasant swing to them, and often are allegorically related to the story--which adds to their value...