Word: poetically
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...teacher, and that he has certainly succeeded in being. Not only is his position assigned high in the roll of English fame, but he has become the teacher of teachers, and no one more than he can open to all minds the beauties of the poetic ideals...
Liszt's Symphonic Poems were composed differently from the general fashion consisting, as Wagner said "of the subject, the development, and the further development." "Les Preludes," played last night, is the third in number and was written about 1845. Like all of his poems it has a poetic basis - on a passage in Lamartine's "Meditations Poetiques." It is divided into six sections or movements, each for various instruments. The Andante, written for strings and flutes, has the theme, and the other movements are an Andante for trombones and basses, Allegro for violins and 'cellos, an Allegretto pastorale for harp...
...true that Wordsworth "has no style"? [Quoted from preface to M. Arnold's "Selections from Wordsworth," xxii. Contra: Principal Shairp's "Aspects of Poetry;" Essay, Poetic Style in Modern English Poetry...
...began "The Task", which was published in 1785, immediately ensuring his reputation. It illustrates the light of religious yearning of the time, but is famous because of the beautiful and truthful descriptions of nature and of domestic scenes. Cowper broke away more completely than Wadsworth from the old poetic diction, but he did not realize he was doing something new. Later he took to translating Homer but met with no success...
...course on English Literature. The subject was Alexander Pope. "It is necessary," he said, "in studying any author to consider carefully not only his life in connection with his works, but also the the life and political conditions of his time. There is always an intimate connection between the poetic and political life of any period and of none is this more true than of the Elizabethan time...