Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offers a varied and interesting list, although, with possible exception list, although, with possible exception of the Odets play, it lacks a good solid tragedy. There is no hit such as Streetecar, Death of a Salesman, Cocktall Party, or Madwoman of Chalilot. Among the new plays, Christopher Fry's poetic drama The Lady's Not for Burning is probably the most successful. John Glolgnd and Pamela Brown carry the greater part of the notion and do so admirably...
...collection of minor pieces by the best of U.S. working critics. Poet Robert Frost was much honored, but no poetry was published that promised a likely successor to him. Carl Sandburg's Complete Poems contained 72 newly collected ones that showed the same minstrel's virtues and poetic limitations of his earliest work...
...that if "The Lady's Not for Burning," she's indeed "For Frying" in Mr. Fry's "Spry" and palatable concoction of poetic wit. SIDNEY KOEKIN Kansas City...
...years later, in the preface to his fat Complete Poems he admits that he is "still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns," and adds, "I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days." On the subject of poetic form, form-scorning Poet Sandburg is a more primitive, less useful guide. Example...
Sandburg's love for the people is as genuine as his love for nickel stogies, but it never attains poetic passion and it is shrouded in pessimism more often than it is clothed in hope. At best he sees a murky, half-formed potential...