Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opening talk the visiting classicist took as his subject "Tradition in Poetry." The classical tradition, he said, that descended from Greece was the true poetic inspiration, and all great poetry since early times had been under direct influence, and owed its greatness to the amount of its faithfulness to the tenets of that tradition, which were ecstatic adoration of primal beauty, not for the beauty itself, but for the appreciation of the transcendent spirit behind it, the spirit that has been felt by all generations of poets, and which is itself the fountain spring of all poetry...
...CHARWOMAN'S SHADOW - Lord Dusany-Putnam ($2). Poetic alchemy in mediaeval Spain...
...Most histories of Greek Literature," he said, "take it as an established fact that the Homeric epics were the earliest crystallization of folk-song in the ancient world that might properly be termed poetry, and that all poetic song has descended from them and from them alcne. As a matter of fact, the molpe, antedating the Iliad and Odyssey by many years, is the true spring of song for which the historians are looking...
...others, likewise saying little, doing much, are in the order of their appointment: Oliver Wendell Holmes, 85, of Massachusetts-"a poetic turn of expression and a liberal cast of thought." Willis Van Devanter, 67, of Wyoming-"a student not impractical, a scholar not pedantic." James Clark McReynolds, 64, of Tennessee, a bachelor with few pleasures aside from work-"one of the most detached, most solitary, least wordly men now in public life." Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 70, of Massachusetts, the only Jew who ever sat in the Supreme Court- "in his decisions the rights of property are likely to be subordinated...
...eight lectures. The first one will have as its general subject "Tradition". The remaining seven will come on Wednesday and Friday evenings throughout the present month and into the first week of November. His schedule and subjects are as follows: October 15, "The Molpe," October 20, "Metre"; October 22, "Poetic Diction"; October 27, "Architecture"; October 29, "The Heroic Age"; November 3, "Hamlet and Orestes"; November 5, Conclusion...