Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crusading for the "fully charged" reality of poetic drama, British Poet-Playwright Christopher (The Lady's Not for Burning) Fry warned a BBC audience not to expect him to be impartial: "Any playwright is laying his own world like an egg in the nest of the theater, and he is deeply concerned in hatching...
Last week, nonetheless, it looked as though scholars might finally get their chance to straighten out the poetic quirks and biographical kinks in the Dickinson legend. After years of persuasion, Harvard had finally convinced Alfred Leete Hampson, longtime friend of Emily's niece, and heir to Emily's letters and manuscripts, that he should part with them. Manhattan Bibliophile Gilbert Holland Montague had put up "a very substantial sum," turned the collection over to Harvard's Houghton Library for a special Emily Dickinson room...
...rare deck of cards, the perfectly normal Coningsby family and a suitor for Nancy Coningsby who has gypsy connections. From there on, in deceptively simple prose, Williams keeps his story moving without a hitch on three levels: 1) a more-or-less conventional love story; 2) a psychological and poetic mystery which employs gypsy magic and visitations from out of this world; 3) a treatise on God as the source of love, and love as the tie that can bind all humanity together and humanity in turn to God. It is typical of Williams that those of his characters...
...TIME was much too highhanded. On second sniff, Poet Rimbaud gives off a perverse, poetic and powerfully significant odor...
London still waited eagerly for T.S. Eliot's verse play, The Cocktail Party, now in its tenth sold-out week on Broadway. Meanwhile, it was busy doing homage to a meteoric new playwright, who, like Eliot, had turned the trick of making poetic drama a sizzling box-office hit. A year ago, few even in London literary circles had heard of Christopher Fry. Last week the name was marquee magic that packed two theaters with customers of all brow heights. The plays: Fry's Venus Observed, produced, directed and acted by Sir Laurence Olivier...