Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...spirit of each song in his group. Mr. Locke's "Song of a Dream" exhibited a sustained lyric mood, with an admirably varied accompaniment. Mr. Roepper called into service an ultra-modern harmonic style, which made his song the most noticeably individual of the group, in delicate delineation and poetic suggestion. Mr. Lynes's "The Wind" was undeniably graphic, and the forceful accompaniment added much to the treatment of the song itself. The accompaniments were admirably played by Messrs. Lynes and Roepper. Mr. Clifton's performance of the Chopin Ballade rose to a very high pitch of excellence, although...
This leads again to consideration of the ambitious quality of the play. Its mood is the mood of poetic drama, but its matter is contemporary and actual. One is given at times a conviction that if a millionaire, instead of a practical but unmoneyed idealist were leading them, the Jews would follow as one man. So much of necessity has money meant to them. But then again one sees only the sublime doggedness of their one highest ideal-resisting compromise. The play in short sets one thinking, sets one contemplating a great ungathered people's fate as well...
...Norton's home and its influence. I have felt that I breathed there the true atmosphere of that university of the poets;--for while there have been notable poets at other universities, the Cambridge of America, like the Cambridge of England, has always attracted the poets, and men of poetic minds. Professor Norton has stood for the beautiful in literature, for the beautiful in art, and for the beautiful in life. It is significant that with all his admiration for the classical, he is known as one of the closest friends and encouragers in America of the most modernly resonant...
...even the best writers at times indulge in flowery language and use technical and aesthetic terms in a way which alienates the professional musician and misleads the layman. "The Music Lover" is singularly free from this kind of writing and may he cordially recommended as a very charming and poetic interpretation of perhaps the greatest masterpiece for orchestra ever composed...
...verse much might be said. It is marked by individual, poetic yearning and by meagre achievement. Thus "Browning," by B. G. Brawley, is vast in its way, but gets its being from a figure obviously more suited to Swinburne--one of mingled sea and wind. "Sea-Poems," by J. H. Wheelock, are scarcely more successful, owing to the writer's tendency to be, fussy with his imagery, and to gasp whenever the mood requires powerful inarticulacy. "Nineveh," by J. S. Miller, Jr., has an ingenious conceit, well worked...