Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...foundation in fact. It was the skilful proportions with which the ordinary metals were balanced one against the other, and the perfection of form and the nice gradations of thickness that wrought the miracle. And it is precisely so 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...
HARVARD RELIGIOUS UNION.- Mr. C. P. Parker will speak on "A Stoic Poet and His Influence," this evening, in Holden Chapel, at 6.45 o'clock, All members of the University are invited...
...German with penetration and tact in matters of literary criticism will own that the principle deficiency of German poetry is in style; that for style, in the highest sense, it shows but little feeling. Take the eminent masters of style, the poets who best give the idea of what the peculiar power which lies in style is,- Pindar, Virgil, Dante, Milton. An example of the peculiar effect which these poets produce, you can hardly give from German poetry. Examples enough you can give from German poetry of the effect produced by genius, thought, and feeling expressing themselves in clear language...
...lucid, harmonious, earnest, eloquent, but it has not received that peculiar kneading, heightening, and recasting which is observable in the style of the passage from Milton,- a style which seems to have for its cause a certain pressure of emotion, and an ever-surging, yet bridled, excitement in the poet, giving a special intensity to his way of delivering himself. In poetical races and epochs this turn for style is peculiarly observable; and perhaps it is only on condition of having this somewhat heightened and difficult manner, so different from the plain manner of prose, that poetry gets the privilege...
...Rand '94, of Watertown, Mass.; First Marshal, J. R. Oliver '94, of Albany, N. Y.; Second Marshal, H. C. Lakin '94, of Worcester, Mass. For the annual undergraduate dinner, which will probably be held April 25, R. Gray '95, was elected Orator; W. L. Van Kleeck '95, Poet; and J. R. Oliver '94, Toastmaster...