No poet has begun to master dramatic verse until he can write lines which, like these in Hamlet, are transparent. You are consciously attending, not to the poetry, but to the meaning of the poetry.

DRAMATIC POETRY IN THE BARNYARD; Edmond Rostand's Long-Delayed 'Chanteclair' Has Not a Single Human Character. HEROINE GOLDEN PHEASANT Gay Plumage to Conceal Simone Le Bargy -- Elder Coquelin ...

Poet and lawyer and public servant, ARCHIBALD MACLEISH has answered many callings in his distinctive career, He has twice been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry—first in 1932, and again in ...

The Ensemble Theatre’s Act One Young Professionals celebrate National Poetry Month with their 7th Annual Poetry Event entitled: Drama-try [Tree]: A Dramatic Night of Poetry. Dramatry is a night ...

Driven by a touching, heroic grandmother, writer-director Lee Chang-Dong’s sublime South Korean import “Poetry” is one of the most, well, poetic films of 2010. And by “poetic,” we mean ...

In his dramatic poems Frost seldom falls back upon ready-made pastoral. These are poems of rural realism: New England as a depressed landscape, country people who are poor and deprived, families ...

Where else does poetry begin? Still, life’s more ordinary rhythms are not the only thing “Poetry” takes on. Far from it. There is a crime and an attempt at a coverup.