Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time he tells the story of Corney Crone, born in Cork in 1873, the son of a narrow, unsuccessful, whining father and a slovenly mother who soon drove four of their five children from home. The fifth was feeble-witted. Corney's youth was dominated by his picturesque, poetic grandfather, an old Fenian who lived in a garret and spouted Shakespeare to his grandchildren. Corney was in on the tragedy of Parnell's disgrace, touched politics when he was arrested for the death of a "peeler" that one of his friends killed. His passionate, pious, innocent sweetheart, Elsie...
...Hyde Park, Undersecretary Rexford Guy Tugwell was in Nebraska and Assistant Secretary Milburn Lincoln Wilson on his way to Europe. In this unusual situation Willis R. Gregg, chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau, became acting head of the Department of Agriculture for a day. It was poetic justice. On occasions when the hand of God is laid heavily upon U. S. agronomy the weather man becomes the controlling influence in U. S. farm policy...
...most readers, there is likely to be no question as to which has made the happier choice of subject. In Poems of People Edgar Lee Masters lapsed into stock poetic attitudes in writing of Washington at Fraunces' Tavern, Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, Daniel Boone, De Soto. Only in Andrew Jackson does he carry out the promise of his title, calling...
...entered the White House with Jackson, where "they all drank cider." The People, Yes is a 286-page volume in which no such signs of aloofness are apparent. As Sandburg's most ambitious poetic venture, it has little in common with the fragmentary, glancing, impressionist verses that won him his reputation, stands superior to them in originality and wit. One of the chief critical charges brought against Sandburg has been that he lacked an integrated philosophy that would guide his writing, that his poems have too frequently been mere expressions of moods, descriptions of street and industrial scenes, echoes...
...Flowering of New England is an inclusive, authoritative, inspiring book, at once a lucid narrative of ideas, a brilliant account of the lives of some 50 writers and painters, a poetic evocation of post- Revolutionary Boston, an almost reverential tribute to the genius of Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau. It begins in 1815, when U. S. writers were largely dominated by European standards of taste and when there was virtually no U. S. art; it ends in 1865 when the Civil War had already put an end to the quiet way of life that gave rise to New England culture. In these...