Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...period covered in the lecture was from Chaucer to Elizabeth. The first poet of note was John Barbour who was born in 1320. In 1375 he wrote his story of Robert the First, called, "The Bruce." The language was the Northern English much like that used by Chancer. Barbour was a man of varied culture, a master of pathos and a true poet. His work is full of dignity and some of his characters show that his own nature must have been that of a gentleman. There is in his work no trace of humor; his mind seemed to turn...
...fifteenth in England centurey was barren of literary advance. In Scotland however literature blossomed out freely. The times were less turbulent in Scotland +++ kings happened to be literary men James I, called the Poet-King, early showed the beautiful nature which afterwards wrote itself so finely in his great poem. James was imprisoned when young and while in prison he made a great study of Chaucer and wrote a great deal in imitation of him. His work is full of tenderness and affection and shows his love of nature and his reverence for good. Two humorous poems are ascribed...
...little known when he came to court. He had been of the Order of St. Francis, but had never liked his profession. At court he wrote innumerable verses on court incidents-which were full of life and vigor. So good was his work that Scott called in the first poet of Scotland to the time of Burns. He too was a follower of Chaucer...
Garvin Douglass was another of these men. He translated Virgil and wrote a good many poems himself. His work contains much honor and pathos but is written in such difficult language that it is little known. Last came Sir David Lindsay who, during his life was the most popular poet in Scotland. He was a reformer in the form of a poet. He wrote the bitterest satires and invectives against the political and social evils of his time and exercised a great influence upon the Cort...
...Politics and Pipe-Dancing" of the tribe of Omaha Indians, and a third is two papers on "The Great Wall of China" giving good pictures in text and illustration of that wonderful wall. Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has an interesting article on Whittier, with a portrait of the poet for the frontispiece. The article is full of a number of amusing anecdotes and many extracts from his letters. One anecdote characteristic of the man is as follows: "Once he was found in the library of a Boston friend, silent and sad, in a mood not usual to him Seeking...