Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures of it and 'tis a mess." Maristan Chapman's Tennessee mountaineers think and speak throughout in such pithy proverbialisms. Their language is often outlandish?it takes a 62-word glossary to explain words like "bo-dacious," "fere." "hirpling," "survigrous,"' "smooch." These rough diamonds the author matrixes in a poetic style showing traces of T. F. Powys. J. M. Synge and the translators of the Holy Bible...
There is an obvious advantage in having the Norton Chair occupied by a man who has himself contributed to the literary movement or poetic school which he describes. When, as in the present case, the lecture stands for a philosophy of letters the value of which is still in debate, the value of personal association in especially great. Harvard will welcome Mr. Eliot next year with exceptional interest...
Despite its relative incoherence, it is a moving play, bathed in that keen atmosphere of sunlight setting on northern mountains which is typical, of Ibsen in his last and profoundly poetic phase. All things considered, the performance, Friday evening, was remarkable for its delicate teamwork. All the players were competent and sympathetic, but first laurels should most certainly go to Miss Kim as Irene for a performance of astonishing beauty...
...abstractions of a doctrinaire philosophy out of touch with its fellow men. They represent in the students' own mind the reflections of philosophy genius on a society which was itself a work of genius, a society whose depths had been lit to their furthest reaches by fishes of poetic fire. All this background of the philosophy has been made accessible to the student...
...place for all of them is bound to exercise a powerful fascination. Moreover a method had been evolved by abstract philosophizing for dealing with these various interests. An intensity of social life had been achieved which fused them together in the common consciousness and demanded the highest type of poetic expression for the new unity. Plato formulates the conclusions of a very complete civilization, and only a very incomplete one could fail to find them worth discussing...