Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...words of our own could do we have thus afforded our readers an opportunity to judge for themselves of the general character of productions of this sort and to forecast perhaps what prospects the academic world holds forth to the great public at large for the production of future poetic genius. This prospect it cannot be denied is bad, is all but hopelessly bad. And yet there is one hope. Our selections while fairly representative of the average run of versicles of the sort has not presented any specimens of those exceedingly rare gems-good verses written by college poets...
...most famous book produced in America during the colonial time. Turning now to men of science we find John Winthrop, [class of 1732,] "was probably the foremost American of his day." His "writings are models of scientific exposition, thorough, simple, terse, lucid, graceful, having an occasional stroke of poetic beauty in epithet ; often rising into effortless and serene eloquence." But in poetry Harvard at this early day furnished the foremost as writers. She since has furnished Lowell and Emerson. Mlchael Wigglesworth, class of 1651 was in contemporaneous renown far above all other verse writers." He had "the genius...
From the "Students' Songs," a volume compiled by W. H. Hills, Harvard '80, we clip the following delicate piece of poetic effort. The music is even more inspiring than the records...
...indeed, from the upper stories of Sage, the eye can take in the country for miles up and down the valley. In the summer, when the hillsides are covered with verdure, and the sun, just dropping behind the western hill, lights up the valley with its farewell glories, the poetic part of the co-ed nature receives a stimulus which forms a powerful antidote to the prosaic effect of Calculus and Psychology...
...violins being especially admired. Mr. Henschel's rendering of the final allegro movement added much to the interpretation of the number. The symphonic poem, "The Tempest," which was conducted by the composer, aroused in its strong contrasts all the fire and brilliancy and all the subdued feelings which the poetic drama itself inspires. In "Lohengrin's Legend and Farewell," Mr. Chas. R. Adams gave one of the gems of the evening, and it is doubtful if Mr. Adams ever rendered a solo more pleasingly or with better effect...