Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Carl Faelton. This concerto, composed just fifty years ago, is incomparably finer than any concerto that has been composed since. It was last played in Cambridge in January, 1888, by Miss Aus der Ohe. It gave Mr. Faelton abundant opportunity to display his brilliant technical skill and poetic feeling...
...Salamicis" is a picturesque version of a poetic story, artistically wrought out. One effect is the introduction of the pronoun "I" in a solitary instance to help in a rhyme which evidently would come in no other...
...chief one, the great point is that all are superior to man. Zeus was their father, he reigned but he did not rule; Apollo, "his premier," was the practical head. His home was Delphi, where he was worshipped side by side with Dionysus. His character was poetic; he was the most Greek of Greek divinities. His tolerance was great, as is clearly shown by his sharing Mt. Parnassus with Dionysus. At this point the lecturer gave an excellent description of Delphi, and then after a few further remarks upon Apollo he closed his lecture with stereopticon views of Delos, Elussis...
...many of equal grace. Agathan is entirely different in design, but equally elevated in thought and feeling, and as artistic in form. It is a Greek play in iambic pentamenter. My Country, Italian Voluntarics, In the Shadow of Etna, Victor's Bird, and At Gibralter," all have the true poetic ring. Altogether the littler book is an addition to the world's library...
...poetry of this number of the Monthly is of an unusually high standard. "Thornrose" by N. Stephenson is a suggestive poem with vigor and motion. "An Egyptian Fancy" by B. Carman is graceful and pretty. It has far more poetic spirit than most college verses...