Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...within his chosen limits, Olivier and his associates have done excellently-from grandiose poetic conceptions (e.g., the frightfully amplified heartbeats which introduce the Ghost) to clever little captures of mood (e.g., the cold, discreet clapping of gloved hands which applaud the half-drunken King). The film is built with a fine sense of form and line, and some of the editing worked out very well. Hamlet's big scene with Ophelia (Get thee to a nunnery) comes immediately before, rather than after, his most famous soliloquy (To be, or not to be). Thanks to this transposition...
Edward D. McDougal III '48 captured the George B. Schier Prize of $250 for an essay entitled "The Ideal of Neo-classic Poetic Diction: Translation and the Homeric Model." Honorable mention went to Eleanor M. Millard, Radcliffe '48, Richard Haven '50, and Arthur W. J. Becker...
...Unquiet Grave," which the Advocate's editors have placed in the unsavory category of "controversial" literature. It is good, but not especially so, and certainly not controversial. The idea of the story, which seems to me exaggeratedly picturesque, is generally hidden behind a style which is floridly poetic. Perhaps this concealment is a good thing, for the style is definitely the strong point of the piece...
What success the acting does achieve is Godfrey Tearle's. Although by no means possessed of a complete conception of the part of Antony, Tearle has great dignity and assurance and a superb voice which makes his portrayal always satisfying, at least from a poetic point of view...
Richard A. Gregg's short prize-winning poem, "To Icarus," stands well above the rest of Signature's writing in both scope and technical competence. Gregg, a past contributor to the magazine, has a gift for the manipulation of sound in poetic expression, which can be seen in such lines as "Proud parabolas upon the deep/Receding blue . . ." It is a pity that only one of his poems has been printed in an issue so barren of this kind of dynamic and beautiful writing. Joan Hyde's atmospheric "Night Picture" communicates through precise visual detail, but her other poem is less...