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Since this is an age of machines, the author feels that we must learn to see in this machinery, poetry, religion, love, liberty and immortality. He puts forth this necessity in chapters entitled The men behind the machines, The language of machines, The machines as poets, The ideas behind the machines.
“Some passages go a step beyond the sublime and some of the epigrams miss fire, but it is so encouraging to find a man who can recognize contemporaneous poetry that we are not inclined to be critical.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 130w. |
“At least he is as eloquent about machinery as the author of Job about Leviathan, and it is impossible not to approve his eloquence, whatever reservations one may have about his philosophy.”
| + − | Putnam’s. 2: 120. Ap. ’07. 490w. | |
| Yale R. 16: 109. My. ’07, 110w. |
* Lee, Jennette Barbour. Ibsen secret: a key to the prose dramas of Henrik Ibsen. **$1.25. Putnam.
7–32577.
A reprint in book form of a series of papers on Ibsen published a year ago in Putnam’s monthly. Her discussion is devoted principally to the symbolism in the Ibsen drama. “Many essayists before her have probed, to their own satisfaction, and proclaimed the meaning of many of his alleged mysteries, and her contention is that each of the social plays is constructed around one central symbol, a knowledge of which is essential to a proper understanding of the work. Thus the Tarantelle is the key to ‘A doll’s house,’ the pistol to ‘Hedda Gabler,’ and Eyolf and his crutch to ‘Little Eyolf.’” (Nation.)