Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FIFTEEN RABBITS - Felix Salten - Simon & Schuster ($1). Mild, somewhat poetic, this exceedingly simple book presents a vision of rabbit life as the Viennese author of Bambi sees it. As in Bambi, which was deer life poeticized, all the birds & beasts of the forest-and finally even the trees- converse freely together in a rather flat idiom, and the majority eat each other with relish and frequency. That, with the doings of sundry hunters, forms the background, foreground and action of the story...
...girl awaiting him. What lifts it out of the genre of Western stories is the sketching of the old Indian-surrounded life, especially the portraiture of northern Indians. Even if the girl Bluebird waxes Whitmanesque and thus goes slightly out of focus, the rest is an authentic presentation of poetic, finely balanced characters living a splendidly proportioned life, a life now traceable only in the files of the Indian Reports and a very few perceptive studies such as this...
Poet Shostac has less to say about Manhattan's 14th St. than about himself. He writes this segment of autobiography in unrhymed, uneven lines that read well and easily. Not particularly quotable, never reaching a high poetic plane, never distinguishing between the vocabulary of poetry & prose, his novel in verse has considerable cumulative effect...
...honors theses adjudged worthy of publication by a committee of the Department of English will be published by the Harvard University Press during the course of the summer: "Poetic Intoxication," by William Nickerson Bates Jr. '30 and "Shakespere and the Ireland Forgeries," by Derk Bodde...
...safe to say that the tradition of reading poetry aloud is not to be killed by a lot of theorizing. Every poet may want to be his own Aristotle, but all his legions of poetic theories will not dethrone the gods unless he writes poetry. There is no test but time; beauty never dies...