Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oxford's new Professor of Poetry, British Litterateur Robert Graves, 66, last week wound up the series with a final cautionary note to young ladies who dream of becoming an artist's inspiration: "Too many irresponsible young women, eager for muse-ship, go in search of poetic recognition. Unless they have the integrity, the ruthlessness, and the certified characteristics of a real muse, they will get entangled with pseudo poets. The outcome is always sad, often sordid. Cunning pseudo poets ruthlessly exploit a pseudo muse's innocent ambitions. The ancient Irish triad is as true today...
...their "scandalous and somewhat noisy notoriety." One poem that raised official blood pressures was about a low-life nihilist-"He wore narrow trousers/ He read Hemingway"-who in the poem's climax loses his life trying to save a drowning comrade. This, to Marxist critics, is "poetic dishonesty...
Clutching the gourd, Macario runs back to life, runs on to fame, to wealth, to power. All the things he never had, the gift of healing gives him. But in his noon of glory he is suddenly struck down; and in the darkling and poetic end of all, he learns that the paths of glory lead to the same lowly grave he would in any case have lain in. Yet it might have been otherwise. "Macario," Death says sadly, "you misunderstood the gift." He misunderstood the gift of life-the turkey, which is meant to be shared with other...
...Common Cause. One force that, more than any other, put reality behind this poetic vision proved to be Europe's great offspring, the U.S. Americans, seeing Europe from a distance and therefore as a unit, had often been better Europeans than many Europeans. Thus, when the U.S. offered the Marshall Plan in 1947, it shrewdly insisted that the European nations cooperate in estimating their needs and in spending the funds. OEEC, the multi-nation agency through which Marshall Aid was pumped into Europe, was a crucial example of cooperation. Followed by the NATO alliance, it prepared...
Augie Zemo's play is also excellent. Marred in places (see Scene III) by the intrusion of prosaic words, it maintains for the most part a pleasing tone of poetic enthusiasm. The writing shows careful attention to style and rhythm...