Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poetic license. Snowdrifts are blue-grey at dawn, do not look white until after sunrise...
...chronicle is complete−a tragic tale of fatality done into poetic prose. Dramatic in sweep, The Babyons is a distinguished piece of writing that glows with colorful finesse of concrete detail. Clemence Dane (Will Shakespeare, and A Bill of Divorcement) lives deep in Devonshire, where she feeds her guests cold ham for breakfast...
...haughty but it's vice. The lady of his piece is married to an urbane cuckold who regards benignantly her indiscretions with a pianist and financier. When he grows tired of her promiscuous activities, she evades his attempt to catch her. At the end, however, trapped with poetic justice, she falls prey to the advances of his private detective...
When the title poem, "a novel in verse" appeared in the first number of The American Caravan, "yearbook of American literature," it was singled out for bold poetic images which justified its existence in poetry rather than prose. Though it is more elaborate and therefore the less effective than Masefield's crystalline novels-in-verse (The Widow in the Bye Street, etc.), its psychological analyses and philosophical comment are nevertheless subordinated to the compelling narrative...
...LIFE-Francis Brett Young-Knopf ($2.50). Versatile author of psychic Cold Harbour, Conradian Sea Horses, two volume saga Love Is Enough, Dr. (medical) Young now combines a poetic setting in Shropshire with the vivid glitter of Egypt. Ruth Morgan leaves her English countryside to marry an Egyptologist, whose heart, but for an April with her in Shropshire, is buried with tattooed mummies in the tombs of Thebes. Bezuidenhout's work is also in Thebes, but his anthropological research is for the sake of his profession as doctor to the living, and not in adoration of dead antiquity...