Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outstanding feature of the volume is its wide range of both of mood and subject--from pictures of Italy to songs of the Pueblo Indians. The book as a whole, will take its place as one of the best examples of Miss Lowell's extraordinary variety, vitality, and poetic genius...
...Gilbert Murray of Oxford, Professor Maclagen is the second occupant of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair, founded by the late C. C. Stillman '98. The holders of the chair are not confined to literary forms of poetry alone, but may treat music, painting, sculpture, architecture, or any branch of poetic art. Last year Professor Murray treated "The Classical Tradition in English Poetry...
...sort of poetic justice Premier Tanaka is himself the son of a poor servant woman who had not even the rank of "honorable concubine" in the household of the onetime feudal lord, Mori. The servant's child displayed such unmistakable quickness and power in mind and body that Lord Mori secured him an appointment to the Military School. Thence he ran through the ranks of officers until, in 1915, Lieutenant General Tanaka was Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff...
...demurely wicked spinster who became a witch, was not a figure one would have expected to become the heroine of a widely popular novel. Yet she had the distinction of being the first choice of the Book of the Month Club in the U. S. This new novel, as poetic in its wisdom as the first, was lately chosen by the Literary Guild of America. Of Sylvia Townsend Warner herself very little is allowed to be known. She lives "alone in a house, with a big, black dog." She studies Tudor music, Roman ruins, believes in witches...
Poetry. The vision of a lone pilot in a grey bird (plane) over the yawning Atlantic caused many people to develop poetic ecstasy. The fruits of more than 200 inspirations reached the New York Times; the New York World reported 2% bushels of verse. But at Le Bourget, shortly after Captain Lindbergh landed a fortnight ago, there was a poet who squatted on the flying field to gain first-hand inspiration-like Francis Scott Key writing the Star Spangled Banner. The squatter was sleek Maurice Rostand, son of the late Edmond Rostand.* The results were disappointing, particularly when translated into...