Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mary Wollstonecraft (Frankenstein) Shelley and Bram (Dracula) Stoker, these writers appeal to the middle or relatively uncorrugated brow, rather than the highbrow, who finds more than enough to bite his nails over in the Age of Anxiety without faking up a little more. The highbrow, in fact, whose modern poetic world has been defined by Poet Marianne Moore as "imaginary gardens with real toads," does not scare easily at imaginary toads, even if, as in Author Bradbury's case, the gardens are real enough...
...poetic estate is the result of poetry's effect on its audience, and this audience has shrunk to a small circle of people usually associated with universities Muir explained. The public at large, he claimed, merely goes its way, generally without realizing what it has lost...
Something from all of the lands and people he has known appears in his poetry--"not obviously, but in many ways"--Muir explains. His poetic understanding and traditional simplicity were recognized three years ago when Queen Elizabeth named him Commander of the British Empire. Muir's works have not yet achieved wide fame in this country, however. Perhaps tomorrow's lecture will further American understanding and appreciation of this lonely traveler...
...forms fascinated Marsh. For sardonic effect he sometimes reproduced in his paintings Manhattan's steady flow of tabloid headlines (DOES THE SEX URGE EXPLAIN JUDGE CRATER'S STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE?). But above the litter and trash of the streets, Marsh saw in the full-blown women the galvanizing, poetic image of the city. He painted them as triumphant nudes, only incidentally clothed, proud symbols with painted, empty faces...
...magazine's most significant critical contribution to date has been a lively discussion on the work of Edwin Muir, this year's Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer. In his first issue, editor Ralph Maud charged that Muir's ineffective allegory and poetic diction produce a kind of poetic chastity. The main value of Maud's essay was that it evoked a highly articulate and sympathetic defense of Muir's poetry from Dr. Harold Martin, director of General Education...