Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Somewhere in his essay on T.S. Eliot, in 'Axel's Castle." Edmund Wilson indicates that much of Mr. Eliot's technique, and also his preoccupation with the problem of poetic drama, can be explained by the fact that Mr. Eliot himself is essentially a dramatic poet a dramatist forced by the lack of a suitable medium and by the complexity of his themes, to telescope dialogue and action into a quasi-narrative form. This observation goes for to explain, in Crane's case, the obscurity of his long poem, "The Bridge," and most of his lyrics, though...
...ghost that still haunts her undiscovered bones, hidden in a thicket. In "The Owl," a baker's wife and daughter are shamed and frightened out of their wits and into their true selves by the silent gaze of a mysterious beggar. Poet de la Mare loves not only poetic language and tricks of speech, but poetic words as well: whist, clomb, darnelled. He writes swang instead of swung because he likes the sound...
...stout profession of de la Mare's poetic faith...
...view of the unfortunate disappearance of the codfish, sacred emblem of the State of Massachusetts, and in view of the probability that its present location is on this side of the Charles, the CRIMSON wishes to offer you Bennie the alligator, hoping in some degree to mets out poetic justice...
Much possessed by Death, like Elizabethan John Webster but not to such a pitch, Faulkner's poetic tone of voice is more reminiscent of other poets, notably A. E. Housman. than of his own nightmarishly poetic prose...