Word: poetics
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...best translators we have collects his verse. Influence of T. S. Eliot, influence of sonnets, classic and modern, some satire, pleasingly keen, capability, technique, promise, no great originality, a mind that has not quite found itself, a voice a little too fond of the accent of other poetic voices. But still, capability, technique, promise-no more unusual promise than in the case of several others, but indubitably present nevertheless...
FitzGerald gilded Omar Khayyám, and Elihu Vedder's now classic illustrations have regilded FitzGerald. Vedder is academic, imaginative, poetic, and about everything else that he ought to be under the circumstances, except Persian. He is Roman, but not romantic...
...dramatic art, poetic gift, keen insight and subtlely of Moliere are lacking, but Goldoni's place in the history of comedy, if not among the highest is nevertheless secure
...topic sentence and so forth; and to a certain extent an illustration of how stupid the sue of mechanical rules alone can be. The baccalaureate sermon, on the other hand, is replete with dignity and yet grace; while the prophecy of the next hundred years is filled with almost poetic fire. Almost all through the book, except in the inaugural address, there is a lilt to the words that is akin to the Homeric. And throughout there is a vividness of picture and choice of words...
...Imbeciles! Pigs! ' roared I to the musicians. Maestro Spadoni, who was in charge, stalked toward me, hit me squarely on the nose." Clara Clemens, daughter of the late Mark Twain: "At Town Hall, Manhattan, I gave a recital. Said the critics: 'Sincere, eager, creator of a poetic atmosphere . . . technical shortcomings as a singer . . . indistinct pronunciation.' My husband, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, who usually is on hand to play my piano parts, was not present. Boris, King of Rumania: "The American press made much of a rumor that I plan to come to America in search of a wealthy wife...