Word: didacticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resents Didactic Poetry
Poetry that teaches is not, he said, the same as didactic poetry. We ask the poet to teach only in his own fashion and mind his own lessons. We protest against didactic poetry; we resent its incompetence.
THE WOMAN OF IT-Clare Ogden Davis -Sears ($2.50). Though onetime assistant to Mrs. Miriam Amanda Ferguson, former Governor of Texas, Author Davis forgets whatever she may have learned of female politicians. Her novel contains the highly artificial story of a woman governor who sacrificed her politics for her man...
Ballyhooed by this handbill, "Doc" Rockefeller witched dollars out of the pop-eyed citizenry of Midwestern hamlets before the Civil War. Husky, usurious, "Doc" believed sharping made the victim sharp. Hence didactic William sharped his own son out of board-money. That son, grateful for sharpness thus acquired, was, is...
Merely because lectures are discontinued, the period preceding examinations is not in any way prolonged, as some seem to believe; and accordingly whatever reading is assigned ought not to tax the student to a greater extent than would the old system during a similar length of time. Theoretically the Reading...