Beauteosity

One glance at Hart Crane through Beat eyes and you can see why they chose him as precursor, but Crane’s lofty abstractions and Shelley-like beauteosity are controlled by an eye and ear that none of the Beats possessed.

katya: How thrilling for a girl it is, dear sister, if she wins the prize; like us, today we beat ’em all for bare-faced beauteosity. / tchotchka: You’re dumber, sister, than I want. Or do you feel beautiful—I ask you—if you don’t get your face all smeared with soot?

There’s a book of the early writings of then-Theodore Geisel (now known as Dr. Seuss) that illustrates the simplistic beauteosity of English. It is called The Tough Coughs as He Ploughs the Dough.