Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine poetic hyperbole expressing Joshua's eagerness in the pursuit of the Amorites. The prosaic writer then adds: "So the sun came to stop, and the moon stood still, until the nation took vengeance on their foes." [It] is as if a British chronicler, writing about King Henry V, came upon Shakespeare's Henry VI and Bedford's outcry: Hung be the heavens with black! and added, in his prose, "The heavens were hung with black when Henry died." Or, as if a dull reader quoted: Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, and commented...
...speech on the BBC some time ago, Mr. Eliot put forth his views on poetic drama, arguing that "there are things which can be said in poetic drama that can't be said in poetic drama that can't be said in the ordinary speech of prose drama." That he is right, there can be no argument. But while the dialogue of "The Cocktail Party" has wit, intelligence, and a genteel flow and rhythm-all of which are certainly desirable in verse drama-one is not altogether sure that what Mr. Eliot has to say could not just as well...
...foreword to "The Lady," Mr. Fry says that his poetic form is really "no one's business but my own, and every man is free to think of the writing as verse, or sliced prose, or as a bastard offspring of the two. It is, in the long run, speech, written down in this way because I find it convenient, and those who speak it may also occasionally find it helpful." Mry Fry's glittering poetry is fun to listen to. Ignore the meaning, and watch it soar and spin about the page or stage, like a toy airplane would...
...unlike that of many another Mozart player, was neither cold, coy nor kittenish. At week's end, on his 38th birthday, he showed an audience in Hunter College's recital hall his fluency and force in other styles: Beethoven, Debussy, Czech Composer Jan Dussek, Stravinsky, and the poetic Schumann's C Major Fantasia, which he has made his own (and recorded for Columbia-TIME...
Schumann: Fantaslestücke (Artur Rubinstein, pianist; Victor, 6 sides 45 r.p.m.) Rubinstein can be hard! to beat when he settles down to it; here, playing one of Schumann's most poetic pieces with great simplicity and beauty of tone, he is incomparable. Recording: excellent...