Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...poet of the evening was R. M. Townsend whose account of Baron Sahara and The Great Thirst, written in excellent rhyme, was full of humorous allusions. Other speakers were Captain Griffin of the class nine, Captain Forbes of the class crew, and A. Borden. The dinner ended with the singing of Fair Harvard by the whole class and cheers for Harvard and Ninety...
...sensibility and taste, and the time of the verse is good. But on account of the limited range of his voice, Mr. Tree is unable to bring out the various music of Shakespeare's verse. His Hamlet was melodramatic, theatric, and moved brilliantly along over the surface of the poet's intention. Often, indeed, Mr. Tree dipped below the surface, but never sounded the depths. His Hamlet appealed to the eye, the ear, the nerves, sometimes to the heart; but seldom convincingly to the understanding, or deeply to the spirit. In general Mr. Tree treated the text with respect...
Professor Norton delivered the third lecture of his course on Dante last evening in Sanders Theatre. The prose works of the poet and their relation to the Divine Comedy was the subject. A summary of the lecture follows...
...product of the understanding, but the living, inmost thought of a man, whose one object is the welfare of his fellowmen. He believed that truth must be spoken at all hazards, and this work was written at the risk of offending the most powerful persons in Florence. Whether as poet or philosopher or prophet, Dante's one strong purpose always remained unchanged. No servant of men ever gave himself to their service with more devotion, or ever served them with more integrity than he did. It is the marvel in Dante's poetry that, intentionally writing for a moral purpose...
About this time the Italian cities began to increase in material prosperity, and this growth was accompanied by wider intellectual life. During the early part of this thirteenth century, love was the one theme of all the poets, but later they began to treat the old themes with new expression, and also to take up new subjects, such as religion, politics, and morality. The first great poet who wrote in the sweet, new style, as Dante called it, was Guido Guinicelli, whom Dante has honored in his Divine Comedy by calling him his father and the father of his betters...