Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Saens. 6. Ballet Music, "Boabdil:" (a) Prelude; (b) Malaguena;" Moszkowski. 7. Suite, "Peer Gynt:" (a) Aase's Death;" (b) In the Halls of the King of the Dovre Mountains. The Imps are chasing Peer Gynt; Grieg. 8. Wotan's Farewell and Fire-charm, from "Die Walkure," Wagner. 9. Overture, "Poet and Peasant," Suppe. 10. Selection, "The Knickerbockers," De Koven. 11. Espana, Waldtenfel. 12. Persian March, Strauss...
...imperishable incentive to curiosity and interest that belongs to all original minds. His finest utterances do not merely nestle in the ear by virtue of their music, but in the soul and life, by virtue of their meaning. One would be slow to say that his general outfit as poet was so complete as that of Dryden, but that he habitually dwelt in a diviner air, and alone of modern poets renewed and justifled the earlier faith that made poet and prophet interchangeable terms. Surely he was not an artist in the strictest sense of the word; neither was Isaiah...
more than perhaps any other poet of equal endowment, he is great and surprising in passages and ejaculations. In these he loses himself, as Sir Thomas Browne would say, in an O, altitudo, where his muse is indeed a muse of fire, that can ascend, if not to the highest heaven of invention, yet to the supremest height of impersonal utterance. Then, like Elias, the prophet, "he stands up as fire, and his word burns like a lamp." But too often, when left to his own resources, and to the conscientious performance of the duty laid upon...
order and proportion. Ben Jonson, who if not in all respects a great poet, was certainly a very good critic, said of Donne that he was the most truly a poet of any man in that time (a time that included Shakespeare), but that he would perish for want of being understood,- a remark which time has fully justified, and which I never could help sorrowfully applying to a writer of our own day, Mr. Browning. Style is that expression of a just thought in prose, or of a thought infused with imaginative passion in poetry, which is precisely adequate...
V.Piers Ploughman.In Dante we have had an example of a great national poet, and as contrasts are more striking than parallels-if, indeed, 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...