Selected Poems and Pygmalion and Galatea, a one-act play

Download or read book Selected Poems and Pygmalion and Galatea, a one-act play written by Robert Manns and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1999-12-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Manns' Selected Poems is comprised of two large poems and a number of smaller verses of various forms that recount is happy, sometimes frustrated, years of bachelor-hood. By a Turning Root is his invasion of several classical forms and a very sound illustration of the poet as visionary. Pygmalion and Galatea was first produced by Lucille Lortel at the White Barn Theatre in Westport and clearly signals an early influence by England's Christopher Fry. The sculptor makes a statue, then falls in love with it. That's transcendental love. When the statue comes to life, she's interested in more than love in that form. The comedy investigates Pygmalion's paradoxes.