Word: arts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...TUESDAY.Faculty of Art and Sciences. Meeting at University...
...evening was Beethoven's Symphony No. 2. which was written in 1802 when the composer was but thirty-two years old. The Symphony is a happy one, is the expression of the emotions of a man who is "at peace with himself and the world, happy in his art and not yet stirred to his very soul by the sorrows of life." An exceedingly odd effect is produced in the first movement by leading the mind gradually on and on till it demands a climax and dropping it just where the climax is expect d. This looks like a mood...
Stopford A. Brooke writes his "Impressions of Browning and his Art." Tomaso Salvini contributes some "Leaves from his Autobiography" and Archibald Forbes has a paper on "War Correspondence as a Fine Art...
...those portions of the Roman Empire which came later to be the Romance nations. Modern life and modern literature are alike full of traces of the Germans, hence it is highly interesting to see how they developed at home, and unmixed with Latin blood, a modern society and art. This development began with their invasion of the Roman world, which produced in them a great excitation of all their powers, very much in contrast with the destruction they brought to things Roman. They carried with them in their invasion religions and historical traditions, largely mythological in form; and these traditions...
...century was a kind of classic period of German poetry; then poetry was treated seriously, as an art to be practised by persons of influence; and the heroic legends of the Germans were the result. This classic period was succeeded by a time when the Germans lost somewhat their national feeling, - the time of Charle magne and universal Empire. At this time, also, there was a revival of interest in the Latin writers and in philosophy. Accordingly, poetic creation languished; and during the 8th and 9th centuries we may say that classical and Christian culture was everywhere penetrating and changing...