Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Soviet author uses a cancer ward as a metaphor for Communist society; the doomed patients reveal jagged, damning insights into the everyday enormities of life under Stalin. Not so successful a book as The First Circle, it is still a relentless narrative and a powerful, often poetic novel...
...musicians for his easy, gracious manners; Bostonians responded to his sense of drama and his flair for improvisation. A chronic under-rehearser who rarely directed any piece the same way twice, Munch was happiest with the music of the 19th century French Romantics, to which he brought a poetic vibrance of color and texture. Last year French Cultural Minister André Malraux hired him out of retirement to lead the newly formed Orchestre de Paris, and though his health was failing, Munch was determined to be on the podium for the orchestra's first American tour this fall...
...does Pound appear to have accepted the liturgical cadence of Eliot when he spoke in his own poetic voice. The opening of the Game of Chess section (originally called In the Cage) begins...
This passage, which evokes both Shakespeare's Cleopatra and the historic Queen Elizabeth (who were both barge owners), seemed to Pound as "too tum-te-tum at a stretch." Eliot fortunately could not help writing poetic poetry. His verse, as it was written, tum-te-tums today in many a mind, and the Boston lady's chair in that passage is still a "burnished throne...
...watercolors reveal the telltale heart. A Brooklyn boy, Levine often visited his father's dress factory, and his deft, murkily lit watercolors of those scenes show that he remembers them fondly and well. He also spent many happy hours at Coney Island, and his sparkling yet dreamily poetic sketches recapture the sleepy magic of glinting waves, roller coasters and bulging bathers...