Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Turney's studiously poetic dialog lacks the full-blooded majesty and thunder that would have enabled it to prevail against the magnificent settings of Jo Mielziner. And Actresses Mendelssohn and Roos, playing their parts like transplanted Lady Macbeths, reduce the play to the proportions of a family feud among the Borgias...
...height the men who fought "in verminous filth to take the next trench 30 yards away" seemed incredible, since the pilot could see, beyond that objective, one after another, 70 miles away. Lewis' strongest memories were not of isolated battles, although he recalled several of them, but of poetic and philosophic experiences high above the earth: his first sight of the War from the height of two miles, flights over London at night, successive realizations of the triviality of man's work. God, he reflected, could come within a mile of earth and never see a sign...
...published Winesburg, Ohio in 1919 he laid the boundaries of an imaginative world that has occupied him ever since. It is a world such as no other U. S. novelist has presented, a world of small towns and cities that are quiet on the surface, inwardly seething with inarticulate poetic restlessness. Its inhabitants usually seem plausible and matter-of-fact at first acquaintance, but they brood, talk to themselves, take long walks at night, sometimes shout out incoherent poetry, have a tendency to leave wives, homes, business. Naïve, unpredictable, constantly bemused by the world around them, they have...
...Bible. Designed to be read for its literary interest rather than as divine revelation, the Book-of-the-Month Club's Bible, edited by Ernest Sutherland Bates, proved to be a fat, well-printed volume with wide margins, connected narrative passages and texts arranged in prose and poetic sequences rather than in the traditional numbered chapters and verses of the King James version...
...contains almost all the essentials of a good novel except a narrative to hold it together or a clearly-defined purpose that would give its episodes significance. Pursued by hearty, headstrong Mitch Holt, who makes a good living smuggling Chinese into the U. S., Sister is captured by a poetic Northern hunter who ties up his boat at Grass Margin for the night. When she becomes pregnant the hunter wants to marry her. Sister is being forced into a shotgun wedding by her dying father and casual sweetheart when her intelligent, cultivated grandfather saves her by taking her across...