Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pulitzers nevertheless seek their poetic strength in art in terms of a diversity of temperaments. I first saw Picasso's Woman in Blue in New York several years ago and never forgot it. Possibly the most exciting of the ten Picassos here, its blacks and reds, blues and violets, unite the painter's apparently endless ingenuity with his most substantial creative capacities...
...will be true poetic justice when these examples of "poetry in motion" show up in the junk yards after being wrapped around sundry unpoetic, stationary objects, and are dubbed "Edsel's Pretzels...
Alfred, a tutor at Kirkland House, is studying in England this year on an Amy Lowell Travelling Fellowship. He has published two poetic works since 1948, "Annunciation Rosary" and "Agamemnon," and has taught at the University since...
...ordinary experience. His toying with insects in a country shack gives him the sensation of being a god and conjures up Michelangelo's gesture of the Lord giving the spark of life to Adam. Perhaps the result is not the greatest poetry ever written, but it is a genuine poetic attempt. Mr. Robert Lowell rightly introduced Eberhart as a man who by instinct sees poetically...
Eberhart's poetry seems to one with a non-scholarly poetic interest, closest to the poetry of Robert Frost. Both men celebrate New England nature with a similar metaphysical turn. Both men are careful and controlled craftsmen. I think Frost weaves more profundity out of the commonplace; essentially, he is probably closer to nature...