Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...14th century romance, the hard-won bride of the chivalrous Amadis of Gaul; in Elizabeth's court, an approved poetic pseudonym for Elizabeth...
...hard not to see Thompson's life as a romantic symbol of poetic suffering and despair, but he himself believed that poets suffer less than other men. "The delicate nature," he wrote, "stops at a certain degree of agony, as the delicate piano at a certain strength of touch...
Based on the last six races of each Sunday's meeting at the Caracas Hippodrome, the Five-and-Six splits 70% of a huge payoff pot among pickers of all six winners, the rest among pickers of five. The widow and her kids, choosing horses strictly on the poetic ring to their names, (e.g., Guadalupana, Sortilegio), filled in the form. She turned it in with a desperate prayer: "Dear God, help me-and if You can't, may it be the devil who will...
...Member of the Wedding. Carson McCullers' poetic play about a twelve-year-old girl's growing pains; with Julie Harris, Ethel Waters and Brandon de Wilde in their original Broadway parts (TIME...
Cummings described his poetic technique as the "eternal answer to the immortal question of burlesque: 'Would you hit a woman with a club? No, I'd hit her with a brick.'" He is striving for "precision, which creates movement...