Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...said, strongly like the poets of the seventeenth century; like Donn and Carew, but above all like Crashaw. In every verse of Thompson's we see the intellect at work, and whatever he does he spiritualizes. That Thompson is not always seventeenth century is shown in his poem "Daisy," as sweet, simple and modern as anything we find in contemporary poetry...
...when we treat of so wayward a thing as human nature it be possible to find two lines of life that run parallel-I turned from him to Petrarch and the sentimentalists. The comparison enables us to feel more keenly the difference between real heartwood and veneer, between a poem made out of a true life, and a false life attempted to be made into a poem. I shall turn back today to a poem as sincere as that of Dante-in some senses as national as his, but which fails of effect because it is deficient in art; whose...
...American English has caught from the Indians. Compared with the great mass of our language, the number of words of Norman introduction is also very small. Chaucer shows the tendency of the two dialects of court and country to coalesce and form a new language. The almost contemporary poem of Piers Ploughman, written for popular effect, is Anglo-Saxon in the form of its metre, and shows but slight traces of French in its diction. The vision opens thus...
...with the language of poetry. The instinct of the poet will tell him whether to use a Latin or an English word, and then, unless the form be all that art require or the most sensitive taste finds entire satisfaction in, he will have failed to make a poem that shall vibrate in all its parts with a silvery unison...
...ninety-five class dinner at the Tremont House last night was in every way a success. About one hundred and fifty men were present. All of the speaking was not delayed until after the dinner was finished, but the poem and several of the toasts were given between different courses. President Emmons introduced Winthrop Ames as toastmaster. J. J. Mach, Jr., read the poem and W. K. Brice, W. M. Briggs, C. M. Flandrau, H. Frazier, G. Murchie and P. W. Whittemore responded to toasts. The speaking was remarkably good, the speech of C. M. Flandrau being particularly witty...