Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...psychological narratives. Talifer, fitting with predictable neatness into its appropriate place in the Robinson canon, adds little, detracts not at all, from the reputation its author's earlier books have won him. Repeating in tempo and style its immediate predecessors, it marks another notch in his descent into poetic...
Handled by a poet less gifted with quiet discernment and a pithy irony which makes extended comment unnecessary, Talifer would be quite empty of significance. But Robinson, though his lines now lack poetic fire, retains a sure and practised technique, a shrewd discernment that radiates light if not heat...
...reminds the reader that Whittier was also a "mil itant and radical agitator who was charged on a number of occasions with blasphemy and sedition. . . . This favorite poet of juvenile readers and composer of hymns for the elderly was for the greater and more important period of his poetic life a stormy prophet...
...telephone calls of people begging for her work she is disdainfully aloof. Randy Morgan (Randolph Scott) is the only man Cynthia considers marrying. In spite of his pleading, she sails unwed for a vacation in Europe. En route she meets an attractive bounder (Sidney Blackmer) who dazzles her with poetic maunderings and the information that on his English estate there is a pool where Poets Byron and Brooke once swam. Also aboard is Olga (Muriel Kirkland), another self-made woman whose belief it is that "all men are alike. One day they kiss you; the next day they kick...
...achievements. A part of Hart Crane's ambition, as his essay on "Modern Poetry," (included in this volume) indicates, was to assimilate the urban and mechanical aspects of contemporary life while resuming Whitman's celebration of the American nation. To this task he brought an exceptionally large and varied poetic vocabulary, and it fecundity in metaphor with appears unique in contemporary poetry. Poems like "Lachrymae Christi," "Belle Isle, " and-the lyrical portions of "The Bridge," have surface brightness of texture alien to most modern poetry. It is possible that Crane, as almost any poet is tempted to do today, wrote...