Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Planets (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC-Red). Alfred Kreymborg's first full-hour poetic radio drama, a peace allegory, entered against Ibsen in an internetwork culture competition...
English 80--Very technical on poetic criticism, Houghton good...
WIND OVER WISCONSIN-August Derleth-Scribner ($2.50). Volume Two in 29-year-old Author Derleth's conscientious project of a Wisconsin historical novel, this is a poetic, placid story of Wisconsin during the Black Hawk War, centring on an idealistic French fur trader...
...amusing but stretched thin; 2) a sentimental story by Helen Hull about a dentist's wife who wins a $10,000 novel contest; 3) a realistic report on New Year's Eve in a flop house, by Albert Maltz; 4) a whimsy about a girl whose poetic sprightliness enchants a middle-aged doctor, by 24-year-old Rachel Maddux; 5) a sentimental reminiscence of childhood by I. J. Kapstein. Main trouble with "novellas" seemed to be that they added length but no depth...
Latest socio-poetic graft that Poet MacLeish has produced is Land of the Free, in which he top-works his poetry on to the art form of the news-picture magazine. In this book, 88 photographs of U. S. landscape and people (taken independently of Poet MacLeish, and mostly for the Resettlement Administration) are "illustrated" by a running verse commentary in which Poet MacLeish says his say about a sweet land whose liberty, for many of its inhabitants, went sour...