LITERARY PROGRESS

 

                                      Playwright, novelist, philosopher, poet -

                                      The secular playwright more prevalent

                                      In the alpha of civilized evolution

                                      Than in the age of Christianity,

                                      When the Catholic playwright came into his own

                                      And, superseding the Roman Catholic scholastics,

                                      With their attenuated philosophy and medieval theosophy,

                                      Brought atomic writing to its wavicle climax,

                                      Before the Protestant playwright attenuated the genre

                                      Through secularization, permitting emergence

                                      Of the liberal novel, with its dualistic integrity,

                                      A dramatic/philosophic compromise

                                      Soon to be challenged, and transcended, by

                                      The philosophical absolutism

                                      Of the socialist novel, or antinovel,

                                      Preparatory to the eclipse of the novel

                                      By practical philosophy,

                                      Beyond which only the anti-supernovel

                                      Of a poetic bias can apply, before,

                                      Last but scarcely least, the pure poet emerges

                                      With the omega of civilized evolution,

                                      To bring electron writing to its wavicle climax

                                      In the purest poetry of a theocratic impression,

                                      An intimation of the Holy Spirit

                                      In the contemplative peace that surpasses all intellectuality.