Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many members of the large cast assembled for this travesty on poetic drams, and also some theatrically prominent people have appeared in past Dramatic Club productions...
...makings of a poet, but instead goes to the U. S. to make a fortune. The year is 1890. On a farm in western Pennsylvania he schemes a partnership in a sidehill coal "bank," marries the farmer's pretty daughter, a schoolteacher, stamps out the last of his poetic impulses. At 34 he owns two big coal mines, is worth a million...
Magnin, philosophical, poetic, middle-aged French commander of the air force, harassed by conflicts among rival political parties, fights despite his fear that the discipline of the army may destroy the freedom he is fighting to preserve...
...Pagan Poem" was originally a chamber work first performed in 1901. The orchestral version was not bought out until 1907. Inspiration of the work comes from the eighth Eclogue of Virgil, the subject of which consists of two love songs sung by Damon and Alphesiboeus. The poetic basis is found in the second love song in which a Thessalian girl has restored to magic incantations in hope that she may bring back here truant lover Daphnis. As she chants, she repeats again and again, "Ducite ab urbe domum, mea carmina, ducite Daphnim." (Draw from the city, my songs, draw Daphne...
...MacKinlay Kantor. The Noise of Their Wings, laid in Florida of 1937, revolves around the obsession of an aged millionaire, who hankers for a living pair of passenger pigeons. The main role, however, devolves on the millionaire's old friend, an ornithologist, who is Author Kantor's poetic mouthpiece. In a series of melodramatic disasters which involve half the main characters, as well as all the pigeons, the ornithologist is everywhere at once, confirming his mystical foreboding that no good can come of the millionaire's fanaticism, that "this entire historic enterprise had become archebiosis-the science...