Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...razor short. Housman put most of his own skin-prickling stanzas into A Shropshire Lad ("When I was one and twenty"), published in 1896 at his own expense when he was seven and thirty. This collection of unpublished poems will halt no razors. They are shavings of another sort, poetic chips and fragments from four notebooks Housman left behind at his death in 1936, which have already been combed for previous posthumous collections...
...reel of the film is given to a fine piece of natural comedy. The moviemakers make pets of two giant groupers who lumber about the sea floor after them with the doggy devotion of submarine St. Bernards, begging with śoulful looks for a handout. The color throughout is poetic and covers an amazing range. It is a pity that the commentary is bad Swinburne, and the musical score banal, like woozy echoes of Tchaikovsky in a conch...
...Poet Sandburg overstepped his poetic license; Steichen will be 76 next March...
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 9:--In contrast to, if not in rebellion against, the "sophisticated poetic tradition," English 195 is entitled "Folksong and Balladry." Blues and spirituals, badmen songs and sea chanteys--Assistant Professor Albert B. Friedman shows in Sever 14 the influence that all such popular expressions have had on formal poetry. This is the first year that the course has been open to undergraduates and the last that it will be available...
...protest is still there. But it is stated in poetic rather than in "proletarian" terms. Shahn still draws for two hours every morning ("like doing finger exercises"), and the liveliness of his draftsmanship keeps even the vaguest of his new works from seeming too diffuse...