Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citation: "Rigorous researcher, persuasive educator, penetrating theologian; in poetic prose and luminous verse he shares with colleagues and disciples his understandings of high traditions and of vital current experience...
...quiet corner, of course, perches the aged eagle, T. S. Eliot, 66, still far and away the No. 1 living poet of the 20th century, sipping his extra-dry sherry of resignation. His old white magic still works, but it no longer holds any surprises. Eliot's lesser poetic cousins-Auden, Spender, Stevens-sip the highballs that somehow fail to intoxicate, that are diluted by too much intellectual ice. There are such grand old but long-familiar individualists as Martini-clever e. e. cummings (with lemon peel) and hard-cider-happy Robert Frost. The younger men frantically mix their...
...This is only the second time in the last hundred years that the Metamorphoses has been done in English verse, and there has not been one as readable as the Humphries version since the 18th century edition, for which Pope, Addison, Congreve, Dryden and lesser lights pooled poetic forces...
...Poetic Flexibility...
John Ratte's cover is excellent and Stanley Polumbo's rendition of Oedipus' encounter with the Sphinx is colloquial without being dull, poetic without being poetical. According to the Notes, Judith Johnson, author of "The Tide Begins to Ebb" ("I have gone through the streets/ and studied every motion that I made ..."), "writes poems, plays and stories. She is a freshman living in Cabot Hall...