Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coriolanus is perhaps Shakespeare's least popular major play-which is not unfitting, since its Roman hero himself spurned popularity. It is perhaps Shakespeare's least poetic major play as well; for Coriolanus, unlike Hamlet or Macbeth, lacks imagination and tragic awareness. But a major play it decidedly is, with a Roman clang and massiveness to its story of a proud patrician hero who is denied the consulate and then banished from the city for not truckling to the plebs, and who joins his former enemies in an expedition against Rome...
...lines surging with the momentum of Pacific rollers-are all present in Hunger-field, his first book in five years. But they are echoes now. Writes Jeffers in the last poem of the book: "I am growing old, that is the trouble." Even as echoes, Jeffers' themes and poetic voice can still provoke and disturb...
...most successful adventure stories had a personal-narrative quality that challenged the year's best fiction. Two of the best, and bestselling as well, were by Frenchmen: Maurice Herzog's thriller about the scaling of Annapurna (see CINEMA) and J. Y. Cousteau's eerily poetic description of deep-sea diving, The Silent World. Finest of the field was Charles Lindbergh's recollection of his flight across the Atlantic in 1927, The Spirit of St. Louis...
With a neat sense of poetic justice, the Berlin senate court confiscated $1,480.95 from the estate of the top Nazi Jewbaiter, Alfred Rosenberg, put the money into a fund for the restitution of surviving Nazi victims...
...Barbados village. After teaching on the neighboring island of Trinidad for four years, he went to England, worked first in factories, wound up as a BBC reviewer of films and books. His own first book. In the Castle of My Skin, is a curious mixture of autobiography and a poetic evocation of a native life that has changed in the author's brief lifetime from careless, laughing simplicity to uneasy social awareness. In spite of patches of fuzzy overwriting, it is one of the few authentically rich and constantly readable books produced by a West Indian...