Word: symbolical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game hunt. His search led him into no forests but into libraries, museums. Starting after the unicorn which, during 23 centuries, has been variously described as a fierce beast, combining the worst features of a rhinoceros -and a wild ass, and as a gentle little creature, the symbol of purity, Dr. Shepard discovered yet another version. His animal, a vague, almost holy myth comes c'oser to the heraldic unicorn which adorns the coat-of-arms of British rulers. This animal, kind, brave and beautiful, was a tragic figure, betrayed on every hand by his beneficiary...
...Rome as were their fathers they will not be blind to the fact that as the lines are drawn today-theism over against atheism; Christ the God man over against the man Jesus; the cross as a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice over against the cross as a symbol of self sacrifice; salvation as a divine gift over against salvation as a human achievement; the Bible as the revealed Word of God over against the Bible as a purely human product; the moral law as a divinely imposed rule of life over against the moral law as an everchanging resultant...
...verse like Dauber, long homely narratives such as The Everlasting Mercy and exciting ones like Right Royal and Reynard the Fox, shorter, more spiritual pieces such as The Passing Strange, these with a bagful of sonnets more notable for content than form comprise the works of the new Laureate, symbol of a new order...
Critic Josephson thinks the "humanities" are "threatened" by our machine civilization, has taken the case of the artist as "a short cut, a convenient symbol." Says he: "In him [the artist] we may see the human faculties, as against the animal or automatic appetites, at their apex: human intensity stated in its highest terms, as Henry Adams would say." The great U. S. artists, says Josephson, have influenced Europe before the U. S.: "the test of a great American artist . . . is whether he is a good boomerang...
...poetic point of view." Then comes this significant addition, "what makes a literary work prose or poetry . . . is a matter of approach and of return. By return I mean some device by which a poem is brought continually back to its starting-place--something which keeps the basic emotional symbol constantly reappearing throughout the poem...