Word: poetically
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...typical Dutch dresses of the period, steeple-crowned hats, baggy coats and breeches for the men, and cap and full dress for the women. In the Harvard Square scene the chorus of students will be dressed in costumes of the present day, treated with a certain amount of poetic license...
course on the legendary and poetic material of Celtic origin, will be offered during the second half year by Professor Marsh...
...Salter of Philadelphia lectured last evening in Sever 11 on "Walt Whitman-his significance as a poet." The lecturer said he would not discuss the poetic value of Whitman's work; he wished merely to show his thoughts. The central point of Whitman's poetry seems to have been the significance of individual existence. He looks on every man as a separate personality, whose place neither in time nor eternity can any other take. This presupposes a peculiar view of human nature. We are used to contrasting the littleness of self with the greatness of nature. Whitman stands at ease...
Professor Norton last night addressed the members of the Camera Club and contributors to the exhibition. He spoke briefly of the qualities which a photograph should have to excel artistically, and besides artistic merit, of the poetic feeling which should enter into the composition of such a photograph. He commended the practice of photography as cultivating the artistic sense, although it be not so disciplinary to hand and eye as the art of drawing. After pointing out various individual defects and merits, he complimented the contributors upon the general nature of the work exhibited...
...piece was then brought to a close by the first device which occurred to the mind of the playwright, such as the finding of a letter or of a long lost relative. Little regard was paid to the logical outcome of characters or situations; still less to poetic justice. In this point Fielding really improved his model, according to modern notions...