Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stubbornly shunning momentary poetic fashions, whether proletarian or metaphysical, he has kept on writing in Williams-style: hard little poems that observe with precision how a housewife looks in the morning, or how The green-blue ground is ruled with silver lines to say the sun is shining...
Loving, by Henry Green. A poetic novel about eccentric English masters and scheming servants in an Irish castle, as seen from drawing room and backstairs; the first U.S. appearance of a first-rate British novelist (TIME...
...aisle. Last week, in the World-Telegram and Sun, Critic Hawkins found T. S. Eliot's new play, The Cocktail Party, "wordy, static and depressing, as well as artificially acted . . ."On the same page, Columnist-Critic Morehouse wrote that The Cocktail Party, was "literate and enormously interesting . . . combining poetic writing with a sharp sense of theater ... played with finesse and authority . . ." Motto of the Scripps-Howard W-T & S: "Give Light and the People Will Find Their...