Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the Deutscher Verein last evening, Dr. Julius Goebel, editor of the Belletristische Journal, delivered an exceedingly interesting lecture on the "The Poetry of Walther von der Vogelweide." The speaker said that little is known of this poet-singer's life. It is probable that he was an Austrian by birth, that he lived in a village called Vogelweide, and that he imbibed from the deep twilight of the German forests that love of nature and legend which characterized his later writings. Until 1198 he lived at the Austrian court, but at the time of the feud between...
...early literature of Iceland was written in old Norse prose and poetry, the latter being subdivided into the poetry of the Edda and Skald or court poetry. The Icelandic poet was not a poet in the strict sense of the word, but a story teller who wandered about reciting tales of Scandinavian origin. The Saga, the heroic tradition of the Norsemen, is divided in three periods: the heroic period up to 1030; the period of development from 1030 to 1100, and a third period from 1100 to 1200, during which all these legends were written down. In speaking...
...Road Horses" is a clever intermixture of the jockey, the traveller, and the essayist. "Over the Teacups," is not as good as usual. The historian of them cannot keep his hand away from the more familiar characters that in other days figured in the "Autocrat," the "Poet," and the "Professor." James Jeffrey Roche gives a poem "At Sea," evidently suggested by the death of his brother in the Samoan hurricane...
Carlyle might have been at first uncertainwhether Goethe's star was that of light or darkness. But Carlyle carefully studied Goethe's motives, his aspirations and his writings, and the result of his considerations and investigations was unqualified approval of the great German poet. Carlyle did not blindly become an admirer of Goethe but brought all his powers of mind to bear upon his life and works. Had Carlyle not judged Goethe so carefully and so critically his thoughts and opinions would not have been, as they are now, those of mankind but simply those of Carlyle. The explanation...
...officers of the dinner were: President, S. Dexter; orator, E. A. Darling; toastmaster, K. Fairbank; poet, J. P. Denison; chorister, R. E. Faulkner; committee, S. Dexter, T. S. Woods, and J. W. Lund...