Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Carlyle was essentially a man of feeling and he was one of the greatest poets of the age. He was a poet in conception and an artist in expression. His literary style was a creation of his very own, rugged, disjointed, uncouth even, but bringing out excellently the thoughts which possessed...
...brings to bear. Mr. Wendell brings out especially the characteristic of self curiosity which possessed the Puritans to a large degree. "The Earl of Surrey" by W. G. Howard is an interesting review of Surrey in the two aspects of cavalier and author. Surrey was by means a great poet, but he wrote some charming sonnets, noted chiefly for their mastery of form. He is especially interesting because, as the writer says, he was in many senses the forerunner of Spenser, to whom he transmitted the eclogue. "Madonna Mia" is a charming character sketch, written in the characteristic style...
...officers chosen by the first eight from '92 are: A. R. Benner, Recording Secretary; R. M. Lovett, First Marshal; S. Adams, Second Marshal. The undergraduate dinner will be held in the latter part of April. W. F. Harris was elected toast-master; D. S. Muzzey, poet; and W. V. Moody, orator for the dinner...
...quiet close of a life lived in harmony with the good, and discord with the bad. This service, so suggestive, so symbolic of the beauty of Mr. Lowell's life, must have deepened the feeling of reverence and love which Harvard and Cambridge have felt for the student and poet...
Dowden and other Shakesperian critics, have divided the range of the poet's composition into four periods. I should prefer to divide it into five, as follows: 1586-97 - the period which we will designate as marking the Romeo-Proteus-Biron mood. It is Shakespeare's lightest period, when the moral tendency is not really settled. The second period is from 1597-1603, marking the Jacques-Hamlet mood. The melancholy Jacques is a preparation for Hamlet. During this period, most of the sonnets were composed. Dur-the years 1603-1609, Shakespeare has returned to Stratford. This is his tragic period...