Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BLUE. The color is defined not scientifically, with reference to pigment and wave length. For BLUE the Shorter waxes poetic. "Of the colour of the sky and the deep sea"; and also, "of a flame or flash without red glare; esp. in phr. To burn b, as a candle is said to do as an omen of death, or as indicating the presence of ghosts or of the Devil. (1994)" Also, the color associated with constancy, "hence, true-b," Or pertaining to the political party which has adopted blue as its color, in England, the Conservative. "To vote b." "Affected...
Incredibly, Hamburg has given Durrell another chance to work toward his announced objective: "To find out if it's possible to write a poetic drama that's really stageable and exciting." His chief postulate apparently is that if he can't do it, no one can. But An Irish Faustus confides little to the reason and unintentionally mocks a great deal more than Aristotle. Durrell describes it as "a morality," but it is really a pretension. Durrell himself was hooted from the stage...
...Memoriam Sir: The enormous swell of sympathy and despair that has risen throughout this nation and the world is testimony to these overwhelming aspects of John F. Kennedy -he had within him a sense of greatness; he bestowed upon the presidency a literate, a sensitive and even a poetic value. These values were considered by most people to evidence brilliance and genius. It is this that transcends politics and nationality-the tragedy of his untouched capacities...
Monster or Hero? Apollinaire, Steegmuller insists, was a remarkable poet despite, rather than because of, the poetic gimcracks he often employed. Uniquely among his contemporaries, he understood that poetry would increasingly need a precise language to keep pace with the modern world, a stock of images to keep pace with science, which was leaving all old-fashioned conceptions dangerously behind...
...Born in Spain and brought up in Boston, he was never really at home in Europe or the U.S. At a time when philosophy was robustly assured, Santayana remained a quiet skeptic. Other philosophers wrote a brisk, matter-of-fact style; Santayana wrote a highly poetic one. They were aggressively liberal and believed in the inevitability of progress; Santayana was a hermitlike conservative who yearned for tradition, a settled order, a sense of place...