Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there was more than that. While the smoke from fire-brigade activities still reeked by Waban where they were washed, the this' breed arrived at the Massachusetts State House to peddle sacred, clammy cod. Photo-poetic interpretations of all the fun and wit and merriment here not a tone for the Spring Fashion Insert intelligentsia...
...most intelligent natives spend a lot of time figuring out ways and means to escape from their Eden. The best fictional intro duction in years to their state of mind was Barbadian George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin (TiME, Nov. 9, 1953), a poetic memoir of island youth that plotted the colored man's course from careless innocence to gnawing discontent. In The Emigrants, a boatload of the discontented are on their way to England and a better break. For most of them, the break comes in the heart. Aboard their slow ship, the islanders...
After two critics had praised the revised version of the poem, Spender said he thought it was much less poetic. "I feel it's not alive," he added. "I'll revise it again and we'll have another reading...
Elliott also named participants in special cultural conferences at the 1955 summer session. Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor or Rhetoric and Oratory, will conduct a meeting on the "Prospects of Poetic Drama" on July...
...Slipper, Tidings Brought to Mary) and member of the French Academy; of a heart attack; in Paris. Claudel entered the diplomatic service and wrote his first play (The Exchange) when he was 25, served in a variety of posts in Europe and the Far East while turning out mystical poetic dramas, eventually became his country's Ambassador to the U.S. (1927-33) and its most distinguished writer-diplomat since Chateaubriand. In 1935. he retired to devote all of his time to writing. Although most of his plays were heavy with Roman Catholic symbolism and too long for staging...