Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a man fancies himself most in a role that would surprise his friends. Clowns are notoriously tragic actors. Often prose-writers break out into a poetic itch, and if the rash is compelling enough, even break quarantine and show themselves in public. Author Faulkner, with a prominent but still embattled reputation as a proseman, now comes forth with a small (72-page) book of poems. It is his second such venture (in 1924 he published The Marble Faun) and only deep-dyed Faulknerites will find it more fine than frenzied. His simultaneous debut last week as a cinema author...
...issued the kind of book that was like a call of boots & saddles to the old vice crusader. Erskine Caldwell is a newcomer to the Viking list, a young author of the leftwing, hard-boiled school of U. S. fiction. Queer mixtures of Rabelaisian spade-calling, bell laughter and poetic proletarianism, God's Little Acre luridly illustrates two present-day intelligentsiac trends: towards unashamed sensuality, against capitalistic industry. It also underlines a recent tendency of U. S. publishers: to go as near the limits of censorship as possible...
THIS is what is known to trade and criticism as an Irish novel," which means that the prose style is "poetic," that the narrative is threaded with "Irish mysticism," and that the here is a melancholy follow, walking in twilight and yellow fog, and meditating on old, unhappy far-off things. There is a thin and rather outre plot, not much narrative, but considerable dissection of mood and temperament...
...terribly enthusiastic," the Literary Guild has chosen Troilus & Cressida as its December book. Keeping Chaucer's conversational seven-line stanza, adding and subtracting nothing, so that the poem is line for line, stanza for stanza, though not word for word as Chaucer wrote it, Professor Krapp is as poetic as professorially possible. Chaucer was not always perfectly smooth; neither is Professor Krapp. Although some will still rather read Chaucer than any "translation" of him, a great many present-day readers will prefer Krapp. By & large the "translation" faithfully preserves the tone of the original -slyly ingenuous, disarmingly matter...
...speaking of the new theory of poetic diction, in which Wordsworth and Coleridge made common cause, Eliot said, "It is Wordsworth's social interests which explain his criticism of the old poetic diction. Wordsworth's poetry met with no worse reception than might have been expected." Eliot recalled the time when he and Ezra Pound were called "literary bolsheviks," and said that in truth they were affirming forgotten standards rather than setting up new ones...