Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed a noble enough theme for Negro Poet Edouard Glissant's La Lezarde. The murder of a young Martinique native and the accidental killing of the murderer's girl friend, who is then devoured by the murderer's own dogs, might even be construed to symbolize poetic justice. But literary justice miscarried when Glissant got a prize; critics thought him an intriguing but inept writer...
True in feeling, Requiem is sometimes hollow in logic. Temple's behavior is baffling except in terms of innate depravity. Nancy's sinner-into-saint switch is an abuse of poetic license. But to a theater often governed by the spirit of commerce, Faulkner has brought a play whose commerce is solely with the human spirit in its torment, in its aspirations, and in its vagrant moments of nobility...
...fiction's suavest purple-people greeter. In this collection of short stories, his literary reception line includes Martians, Venusniks, mermaids and sundry oddball Earthlings. What the tales have in common is the spectral dread of a Charles Addams cartoon, a twist of O. Henry, and an occasionally vivid poetic image that some readers regard as Bradburied treasure...
...distinction can be made (and, in a sense, it cannot), the main interest of Twelfth Night is poetic rather than human. The characters lack the idiosyncratic vigor of Shakespeare's best comic characters, and very little that they say or do is very funny. Their emotions are never intense; the lovers, with all their pleading and scorning, their smiling and sighing and blinking back tears, are, as has been pointed out before, less in love with each other than with love itself. The play's charm derives very largely from its rather limp-wristed, but very pretty, love poetry...
...best soliloquies, Mercutio's Queen Mab speech, an abdicating Richard II, a sleepless Henry IV, a dying Lear and John of Gaunt. A few may wonder why Gielgud includes numerous sonnets and not a single lyric, only to decide that he prefers his Shakespeare, even when most poetic, in a personalized context...