Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very end the shifting of emphasis to the part fate has played in the life of Bruce's father would seem to be a bit extraneous. Taken as a whole, however, the poem is a superlative production showing a sustained power and maturity in addition to its real poetic beauty...
...portraits in the gallery of letters and lucidity of style adds grace to the arguments employed to justify the changes. If Professor Garrod does not destroy contrary convictions he shakes them thoroughly. Arnold, Clough, Emerson, and Bridges, he treats with scholastic insight too rarely found in company of poetic comprehension. His light is sharp and deeply cuts into the body of poetic expression while his own vehicle is characterized by a delicacy that is pleasing respite from the brutishness of many modern critics of letters...
Baudelaire's gloomy intensity and obvious poetic ability, soon made him a marked man in a Paris that swarmed with talents. One of the first Frenchmen to discover Edgar Allan Poe (whom he considered his affinity), Baudelaire was Poe's French translator, and some critics aver the translation betters the original. With no sense of money, he was never out of debt; and his poverty, complicated by Luciferian pride and creeping illness, might have brought him to an unknown end had it not been for his mother and his friends who loved him. He died...
...reputation as a poetess. The life of this writer, who was a leader in the social and literary life of the Commonwealth and Restoration, has furnished her biographer with material for an interesting volume. Dr. Souers has also incorporated in his work the critical consideration of Mrs. Philip's poetic output...
Always pithy, his poetic vein sometimes turns political...