Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...introduction this year of two new courses. one in the plays of Shakspare and the other in the condition of the workingmen. Amid all the specializing and minute analysis to which so much of the work in the University is now tending, a new course dealing with the poetic beauty of man's imagination comes like a refreshing breeze. It is the minute analysis and classification to be sure which makes the scholar, but it is the appreciation, beauty and the refinement of the taste which makes the educated man; and the more opportunities that Harvard College can offer...
...article which is so exceptionally good is W. V. Moody's "The Lady of the Fountain." It is in blank-verse form, interspersed with prose of decidedly poetic diction. The poetry is very musical in its rythm, and contains many good lines, while the prose is almost as musical as the poetry. The whole thing is manifestly influenced by Tennyson if not actually in imitation of him, but as it does not pretend not to be, this fact can hardly be said to lessen its value...
...grouping together, representations of three types of character, all different, yet all pointing to one ideal conception of manhood, he showed what power the language of music has to express the different phases and emotions of the human character. From the romantic reveries of the imaginative, poetic Manfred overture, through the life portrayed in Schubert's unfinished symphony, a life beautifully calm, yet with its moments of sorrow, finally, to that magnificent expression of manhood in Beethoven's grandest symphony, culminating in the glorious burst of triumph of the last movement, through all the picture of varied experience, there...
...Mead-slave Was Set Free" by William Vaughn Moody. As in almost all of Mr. Moody's poems, the language is vigorous and the thought sustained. That he has a large vocabulary and is able to use it well is one of the chief elements of whatever poetic strength the author may possess, - and one of the most notable features of the poem in question is the almost complete absence of commonplace expressions...
...church did much more than contribute to us its theology, for by insistence on certain types of felling, by its poetic lives of martyrs, and by its scriptural poems, it had a most powerful influence in the growth of culture. This growth extended through all the centuries from the 6th or 7th, when the new language of France was born, up to the 13th, when a new world had manifestly sprung forth. Arts of all sorts began to assert themselves. France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany and England all formed a new world in poetic life. And finally in Dante...