Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "English Influence on German Poetic Diction in the Eighteenth Century." Professor Walz. Common Room, Conant Hall...
MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "English Influence on German Poetic Diction in the Eighteenth Century." Professor Walz. Common Room, Conant Hall...
...patent technical shortcomings, it succeeds in a degree sufficient to justify itself. Precisely what thought underlies its compressed and complex sympathetic imagery one would, it is true, hesitate, even after a considerate reading, to pronounce with much precision. But the purport is clear enough, the mood is undeniably poetic, and it touches the imagination. Like much modern poetry it has the virtue of bringing agreeable to mind its literary ancestors, in this case the sonnets of Rosetti. It is to be regretted, however, that besides Rosetti's habit of luxurious concrete visualization. Mr. Wheelock has not more of his music...
...readers would dislike him because of his arrogance and self-conceit. There are in the poem many inconsistencies, such as various descriptions which cannot be thought out, and similes which are not strictly applicable. In examining various instances of these inconsistencies the conclusion seems to be that the high poetic value of the Iliad must be considerably detracted from. We see many of the similes and descriptions taken over ready-made from order books or traditions, and although we might think this to be fatal to originality, we must consider the exact meaning of the term. We should regard...
...among all American authors of his time, the most individual and disarming combination of qualities. He was at once genial and guarded,--kind and cordial in greeting, but with an impassable boundary line of reserve:--dwelling in a charmed circle of thought, yet absolutely self protecting; essentially a poetic mind, but never out of touch with the common heart:--yet not so much a creator as a composer; and viewing his themes, as a very acute observer has said of him, 'in their relations, rather than in their essence...