Word: poetics
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...discussed and probably overrated "Lifiom". The hero, who, though an Irishman, is not a villain, goes to Heaven and completes a terrestrial romance with the soda-fountain lady of his dreams. Such is the plot, by far the least interesting part of the story. Much more important is a poetic, and even mystic, conception of great magnitude; every man's Heaven is a reflection of his Earth. Thus, Lorenzo the Magnificent beholds the dwelling of God as a vast, shining palace; the Egyptian slave beholds it as a sanctuary of a wordless mystery; Herlighy, from Eighth avenue, beholds...
...story of the red path of hatred, the gradual poisoning of a man's mind and body and soul. And yet, with all his singular craft and dark poetic power, Mr. Freeman is not entirely convincing here...
...shattered statue in the desert, bearing this inscription, inspired Shelley with poetic irony. How much greater must the irony have seemed to the excavators in Professor Reisner's expedition, when they brought to light on the Upper Nile a long dynasty of ancient monarchs, kings of Ethiopia for four centuries, now forgotten for more than two thousand years. Archaeology is generally considered as dry as the dust in which it works; but the account of Professor Reisner's discoveries just made public by the University, tells a romantic story. Here is a subject ready to the hand of a sentimental...
...first place, Mr. Benet has instilled into his writing a lively, easy style that swings along in great form. His descriptive ability is of high calibre, and the book is vividly colored as a result of his careful observation and, we suppose, also from his training in forming poetic images. The poems that are interspersed here and there have a pleasant swing to them, and often are allegorically related to the story--which adds to their value...
...detailed presentation of the milieu, quite in the manner of "Main Street". The story in the "Translation from the Navajo", despite the author's agreeable lightness of touch, and gift for fanciful invention, is well-high lost in the atmosphere. The sentiment of the verses headed "Amnesia" is poetic and apparently sincere, the technical frame-work is successful; but here the impression is impaired by a too highly colored wordiness. The setting is best managed in "The Walloping Window Blind", with admirable restraint and with something of Conrad's feeling for the terror of remote seas. One of the least...