Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because the great bulk of Roger Williams' thoughts were both written and printed in a haphazard fashion, American Literature Professor Perry Miller did necessary and extensive editing to make the tracts readable. He has done so in an expert and conscientious way, clarifying considerably the flowery intricacies of Williams' prose...
Ohio's Farmer-Author Louis Bromfield", who has written for every medium short of the head of a pin, turned in his latest copy to a calendar company. The bucolic prose: a description for each of twelve color photographs of his Malabar Farm for a 1955 calendar...
Both are one act plays, the first concerned with the individual's search for peace within himself, the second with the blind actions of the mob mind. The Trojan Horse, presented second, is the better of the pair, because the audience is never aware it is hearing poetry, not prose. The play opens with the discovery of the Greek horse outside the walls of Troy. The Trojan populous, wanting to believe the horse is a good omen, refuses to heed the few who warn against...
...upon the Sea is not always good drama. The first third of the play is set in the tropics at a cocktail party, where long passages of meaningful poetry alternate with more prosaic conversation. The poetry itself is movingly beautiful; it fails only when it crashes against the earthy prose of the cocktail hour. The author faces with no such problem in The Trojan Horse, whose universality is well suited to the verse form...
Such scenes, written in a bare, vigorously perceptive prose, infuse The Hive with uncommon power. It is too bad that Novelist Cela's method is self-defeating. He spreads himself too thinly over too many characters, and his vignettes, taken together, lack the sharpness that they have separately. But many a lesser, more successful novelist would give his best typing finger to be able to evoke the bitterness, insight and compassion that Novelist Cela packs into brief scenes that plunge straight at the heart...