Word: poetics
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...Bible. Designed to be read for its literary interest rather than as divine revelation, the Book-of-the-Month Club's Bible, edited by Ernest Sutherland Bates, proved to be a fat, well-printed volume with wide margins, connected narrative passages and texts arranged in prose and poetic sequences rather than in the traditional numbered chapters and verses of the King James version...
...differ with Mr. Nicoll's thesis that the hope for the theatre lies in its return to themes "presented in conventional forms," plots that "took no account of the terms of actuality," and language that "soared on poetic wings." Mr. Nicoll points out that the trend has been toward naturalistic plays, but that it is a trend with no future. He considers that Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset" fulfills his requirements for the stage: it "aims at building a dramatic poetry out of common expression." Yet, in the theatre, a spectator unacquainted with the text would not be aware...
...Lowell was a born controversialist and she was notoriously one of the most outspoken and fearless critics in the history of any literature. The poetic renaissance called her best faculties into play, and she used them with striking success from the time when her memorable--and triumphant--quarrel with the mercurial Pound began in 1913, until her death. She was never more magnificent than when confronted by ill-natured opponents in a lecture-room. On the other hand, there was never a fairer opponent than she, nor one more ready to make friends again. Yet polemics provided but one channel...
...speculative tone-as well as by the inveterate ambiguity of their meaning-the verses included in The Assassins ranged from night thoughts on the shores of the Baltic to an evocation of Alexandria at noon, gave an impression of a strong talent somewhat overburdened with literary allusions and traditional poetic moods. Possessing none of the sardonic mockery that distinguishes so much post-War poetry. Frederic Prokosch writes of ruins that call to mind the brevity of human life, invokes the stars and the sea as symbols of permanence, speculates on the prehistoric innocence of African natives...
Although his language and his rhythms are modern, the world of this poet has much in common with that Gothic land of bleak plains, deserted cities, brooding cliffs and endless solitudes that characterized the poetic age of Byron...