Word: poetics
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...with her. Day after day she reverts more and more into a fox, and at last is killed by the hounds. Mr. Garnett might easily have been grotesque, sensational and melodramatic, or merely absurd. Instead, he has written a fable in the best tradition. His style is serious and poetic; he avoids the obvious grotesqueness of his story, and achieves a work...
Edward W. Bok, aglow with a poetic and moral enthusiasm for business, fairly slaps the young man on the back and says: " Character, my boy! Honesty is the best policy...
...current drama with a more leisurely eye than the critics of the daily press. His speculations are always interesting, frequently fundamental. Among other phases of the drama under his analysis are acting in general, that of Ben Ami, Charles Chaplin and Duse in particular, the cinema, the effect of poetic drama on the actor, the Theatre Guild's production of He Who Gets Slapped. THE TYRANNY OF POWER - D. Thomas Curtin. Little, Brown ($2.00). This book is valuable chiefly as a study of melancholy conditions existing in the West Virginia coal mines. It is a careful and considered examination...
PEER GYNT-Ibsen's poetic phantasmagoria of self-sufficient compromise, with expressionist settings. Joseph Schildkraut is the braggart Peer, whose age and locality change with equal celerity...
PEER GYNT?Ibsen's poetic phantasmagoria of self-sufficient compromise, with expressionist settings. Joseph Schildkraut is the braggart Peer, whose age and locality change with equal celerity...