Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...strange then that prose preponderated over verse. Satire and cynicism occupied the best poems and the poet became a man about town. Society everywhere was intriguing for place or power. But the influence of the times on literature was not wholly bad, for the wits corrected many gross faults that had come in with restoration, and brought infinite good sense with grace and terseness of expression...
...this period of Queen Anne's time the four leading literary men were Pope, Swift, Defoe and Addison. The last three represented the prose while Pope was the poet. Pope's life and works were closely intertwined and much influenced by his circumstances. He was born in London, the son of a catholic linen draper, but very early in his life his father retired from business to a small estate at Binfield. Pope's education was of the most miscellaneous character; he received his early training at home and later went for short periods to several schools in and about...
...Senior class at Bowdoin has elected the following officers: President, Savage; vice-president, Owen; secretary and treasurer, Arnold; marshal, Carleton; poet, Peabody; prophet, Clifford; historian Barker, and orator Fabyan. Carleton of last year's football team was elected senior gymnasium captain...
Richard Hovey of New York, Dartmouth '85, the author of "Launcelot and Guinevere," will be the poet at the National Convention of the Zeta Psi Upsilon to be held in Hanover, next...
...poet, Mr. Maurice Thompson, is not however, so well known here. Mr. Thompson is a western man. residing now in Indiana, but he received his education in the South. He is both poet and novelist. His best known works are "A Tallahassae Girl" and "His Second Campaign," while his best poems are "Hoosier Mozaics," The Witchery of Archery." and "Songs of Fair Weather" Mr. Thompson is a frequent contributor to the magazines and has firmly established his reputation as a writer of stirring verse...