Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...will give the second of his series of four readings from the works of Leconte de Lisle, Verlaine and from the "Roman, de Tristan et Isent" by Joseph Bedier, in Sever 11, at 8 o'clock this evening. The following selections in prose and verse illustrating the life and poetic development of Paul Verlaine will read: "Son enfance blanche," "Ses debuts litteraires." "Seschutes successive," "L'enfer...
...FRENCH READING. Selections in Prose and Verse illustrating the Life and the Poetic Development of Paul Verlaine: (1) "Son enfance blanche;" (2) "Ses debuts litteraires;" (3) "Ses chutes successive;" (4) "L'enfer." Mr. Robert Dupouey, of the Ecole Normale, Paris. Sever...
...FRENCH READING. Selections in Prose and Verse illustrating the Life and the Poetic Development of Paul Verlaine: (1) "Son enfance blanche;" (2) "Ses debuts litteraires;" (3) "Ses chutes successives;" (4) "L'enfer." Mr. Robert Dupouey, of the Ecole Normale, Paris. Sever...
...number, is on the whole, better than the prose. "Sunset," is exceedingly poor; but "Nocturne," has genuine lyrical beauty, and "Demeter," by A. D. Ficke, is musical and delicately fanciful, though it lacks the strong and sure command of suggestive striking similes, which are the marks of poetic imagination as distinguished from that poetic fancy which pleases, but does not stir, and lightly fascinates but does not compellingly more...
...their death so merrily" at the naval disaster of Samoa in 1889. To be sure the poem loses some force from the fact that in reality the "Trenton" sank in shoal water, so that the "merry" death scene is not historical; but there is much virtue in poetic license. The number also includes "A Song," by W.S. Archibald, and two "College Kodaks...