Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dodd [who heads the group working on a new translation of the Bible]. The "archaic phrases" are one of the features that make the Bible the jewel that it is. If the "moderns" want seduction, incest, etc., it's all there for them, only in poetic form. What modern novel cuts a prostitute in twelve pieces, one to be sent to each tribe of Israel...
...emphasis in the story shifts from Doggy's role in the gang to Doggy's relationship with his mother, and finally to the mother herself. I hesitate to disclose any part of the carefully worked out plot with its sudden, horrible revelations, or to point out the occasional overly poetic verbosity which threatens the casual done of the story, in which nearly every detail carries weight...
Best from Abroad. Of the straight dramas, there are All the Way Home, which owes much of its poetic power to the James Agee novel, A Death in the Family; The Wall, awkwardly based on the John Hersey novel; Advise and Consent, lively but shallow theater drawn from the mountainously detailed bestseller; Face of a Hero (closed), based on a Pierre Boulle novel. The only original works attempting to reach any stature: Tennessee Williams' disappointing domestic comedy, Period of Adjustment, and Arthur Laurents' clever but empty Invitation to a March, Clearly the most provocative plays are all imported...
...with one of the cosmic forces. They have become, in MacLeish's view, links in the underlying order at the heart of the universe, which men instinctively feel, and consciously or unconsciously mimic, in poetry and the other arts. This is a drastic oversimplification of the niceties of poetic craft, structure and sensibility with which Poetry and Experience is concerned, but it is a guideline to Poet MacLeish's central theme: that poetry is a passionate, perpetual re-introduction to the self and the universe...
...make poetry flutter, according to MacLeish. Reduced to prose, even great poetry is full of platitudes-life is short, love is sweet (or bitter), death is final. George Moore held that words have meaning only as signs of the things they stand for. Mallarme believed that all poetic meaning stemmed from words as sounds. MacLeish commonsensically concludes that any word is both sign and sound, and that a poet who ignores either tends to get as far out as James Joyce did, fictionally, in Finnegans Wake...