Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...serious treatment, are worth while from all points of view. Nothing is more important in reforming abuses than well-directed and kindly ridicule. Of the verse, the "Ballade of Lost Editors," by W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez sC., is the best. It has unusual knowledge of values and a real poetic flavor. "Rain in the Night," by R. MacVeagh '10, has a strong, sane rhythm, reminiscent in parts of Kipling. "The Holly Tree," by H. Fairfield '10, is an attempt, in rather uneven verse, to give atmosphere to a place which for most of us has not even tradition. Taken...
...poetry is not strikingly good. "The Tale of the Stolen Squad" displays easy mastery of narrative verse and must have been fun to write. "Sea-Mist" is poetic--in part, at least--but only intermittently skilful in versification. It commits the indiscretion of beginning its first stanza with a verse that suggests a different metre from what is coming. The conception of "Sonoratown" is better than the execution, which is metrically uncomfortable. The sonnet "On the First Movement of Mahler's Fifth Symphony" is able writing, but not clear. "On a Sundial" is a pleasing but unsatisfying epigrammatic quatrain...
...first act of "Marlowe" is laid in a London tavern in 1590. Christopher Marlowe, whose "Faustus" has just been most successfully staged, meets Alison Barnby, who, accompanied be her father, has come to London from Canterbury for a visit. Alison falls in love with Marlowe and his poetic songs, the style of which is entirely new to her. Marlowe's finer nature is impressed with her freshness and childish innocence. Later in the same act he has a meeting with a lady of the Court, who is in love with his impetuous genius, but not with the man himself...
Sophomores of poetic or musical ability are urged to write words, music, or both, for a class song. Compositions should be sent to Westmorly 131 before next Tuesday...
...unique oportunity to compare two different types of descriptive music--the Mendelssohn "Melusina" and the Beethoven "Coriolanus," each its kind a pure work of genius. In the "Melusina we find the same Mendelssohn as in the "Midsummer Nights Dream" music and in the "Fingal's Cave," with his wonderful poetic power of suggesting the phenomena of nature...