Word: poetics
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Some observers saw a bit of poetic justice in the race. Frannie King, first Harvard leg, fell flat on his face from what appeared to be a deliberate foul by the Yale runner. King regained his feet and raced on, yards behind...
...Poetic Justice...
...kill" was almost too literal but poetic justice must be served--two yards from the tape, as Lightbody drew up even with his opponent, Millet stumbled and fell in a sprawl on the pock-marked boards. The time was 3:32, not brilliant because of the mishap in the first quarter...
While Shadow and Substance is too measured, too lacking in poetic vitality to rank with the best dramas of J. M. Synge and Sean O'Casey, it is likely to be a permanent addition to Irish literature, is surely as good a play as Broadway will see this year...
When Van Wyck Brooks called the period of Hawthorne, Emerson and Bronson Alcott the flowering of New England, he did not use the phrase for its warm, poetic savor. Not only in Brooks's book but in lesser works like Odell Shepard's Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Branson Alcott, readers can catch whiffs of a morning freshness in the cultural air, when poets and novelists no less than practical citizens took on themselves lifetime projects, came back to work unshaken after personal tragedy or public disgrace...