Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poets by annual stipends of $5,000 apiece. No poet herself but a rich and comely young socialite. Mrs. Bullock had enlisted as sponsors Mrs. Calvin Coolidge (The Open Door, The Quest, Watch Fires}, Mrs. James Roosevelt. Owen D. Young, Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani. many an other bigwig, poetic or unpoetic. Said Mrs. Bullock: "Poets must eat. . . . Our entire purpose is to free genius from the necessity of gaining a livelihood by almost any means except the means it was born...
After disparaging modern "realism," the be spectacled, sharp featured dramatist expressed the need for a more poetic and elevated style of dialogue. He made several biting remarks on the critics' taste for "comfortable" plays, but graciously asserting that the stagnation of the contemporary stage is due, not to the stupidity of the audiences, but to the venality and spinelessness of the modern playwright. Questions at the close of the lecture were answered with flashing wit. Asked whether there was not a dearth of Irish plays, O'Casey pallied gracefully by remarking that dramatisis are turning out enough plays but they...
...John Howard Lawson which the Group Theater has chosen as its second play of the current season. Forcefully conceived and superbly constructed, it tells the story of a Russian Jew in his struggle for power and self expression. Cursed with a driving ambition, an unlimited imagination, and a suppressed poetic fervor, Sol Ginsburg rises ruthlessly to the domination of a great business firm. This mad search for power drives Sol from his love for Sarah Glassman; his restless soul is never satisfied; his confused ideals and desires lead him on in unceasing search for anything which seems inaccessible...
...first and second acts have a strength rarely found on the modern stage and in the final scene there is a poetic beauty and terror which is almost Biblical in its sweep and expression. Stella Adler as Sarah Glassman is superb; her work has an artistry and beauty which is enthralling, and her understanding melodious voice pierces deeper than the ears. Luther Adler is powerfully moving as the unfortunate Jew; he is at once strong, pitiful, poetic, and cruel. The supporting cast is uniformly capable, and the technical phases of the production have been admirably accomplished...
Poet Pound's magnum opus, the Cantos, is written in a form peculiar to him: a kind of poetic newspaper, its fragmentary comments ranging through half-a-dozen centuries, cast in as many languages, sprinkled with "unprintable" Anglo-Saxon terms whenever they come in handy. In Eleven New Cantos the interludes of recognizable poetry are rarer, the shorthand economic diatribes more frequent. Hopeful speculators who try to plot the curve of Poet Pound's current issue will be sadly shaken as it zooms from the 18th Century to the 20th, bumps down to the 15th, changes its orbit...