Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jorge Guillen characterized the Spanish Seventeenth Century humanist poet Luis de Gongora as "a poetic architect" who "constructed an art comparable to the works of Picasso," in his third and final Charles Eliot Norton Poetry Lecture last night...
Guillen, speaking on "Gongora: poetic language," said that the humanist was especially gifted in using words to create symbols. He told his audience at Longfellow Hall that "by the use of metaphors, a new reality is created--a reality to the second power...
...series, entitled "Language and Poetry," will also include lectures on the Spanish poets, Berceo and Gongora. Guillen will speak on "Berceo: Prosaic Language," Nov. 12, and on "Gongora: Poetic Language...
...what had not been known, the imaginative urge to reinterpret--these the tired and weary student has gradually lost. He has been wrung dry, and, knowingly or not, he often finishes his thesis with the firm resolve to have no more to do with "scholarship." The drive--almost the poetic drive--which first excited him and sent him on from college to graduate school...
These lithographs are only vignettes, yet they are wonderfully complete. Each one has its own poetic raison d'etre, each one functions perfectly as an entity. Maillol has translated the grace and fluid volume of his sculpture to the lithographer's stone with such success because he is equally as fine a draughtsman as a sculptor...