Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goes out one night with a patrol; how he wanders from the others, possessed with his vision; how, holding his silver rood before him, he walks up to an enemy patrol, is taken, stripped, spat on, and crucified against a door. The Author. Authoress Radclyffe Hall's maiden poetic effort was dictated at the age of three. By 1915 she had published five volumes of verse. Novel-writing, suggested by Publisher William Heinemann, followed: The Unlit Lamp, The Forge, A Saturday Life, Adam's Breed, The Well of Loneliness. The last, sympathetically telling the story of a girl...
...complete modern history of American literature yet published. A little Freudian analysis goes a long way to give the story bite. As applied to Whitman, it not only bites, it goes far to clear our literature of one of its most muffled mysteries. Author Lewisohn seldom lets his religio-poetic predilections run away with him, gives good professional literary criticism by & large. The U. S. literary scene, when he is through with it, looks just about the same, though the literati look more real. For modern writers like Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, John Dos Passes he has not much...
...Satin Slipper, "a, poetic drama of human destiny and spiritual salvation" by Poet Paul Claudel, French Ambassador to the U. S., was published by Yale University Press. Excerpts from the preface: "Ideas from one end of the world to the other are catching fire like stubble. From Thames to Tiber is heard a great clatter of arms and of hammers in the shipyards. The sea is at one stroke covered with white poppies, the night is plastered all over with Greek letters and algebraic signs. There's dark America yonder like a whale bubbling out of the Ocean! Hark...
...Unlike Western poetry, a Japanese poem is not intended to express a complete thought but to suggest a series of poetic ideas in the reader's mind...
...present essay, lately (Oct. 15) delivered as a lecture at the Queen's Hall in London, John Mase field follows much the same track, defines poetry by quoting it. He is less nationalistic than Editor Squire; Shakespeare, Dante, Aeschylus and Homer are Poetry to him. His poetic license having been conferred on him by royal appointment, Laureate Masefield does not hesitate to use it. Specimens: Poetry "is best in lands of vintage and in those sunny years which have been years of good vintage."* It is "the wine of the human grape." It is, in short, something of which...