Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...less length Professor Royce discusses the touch of idealism and poetic sensitiveness of the Californian nature that comes from daily contact with the wonderful richness and beauty of the country...
...most influence are those which contain passages of great beauty and mystery; and in the teachings of Christ we see the same truth. His power came largely from the fact that He spoke to those about Him in parables; and all the parables of Jesus were full of poetic inspiration...
...Turner in particular." Ruskin saw that "what Turner sought was the ideal truth of nature, that he portrayed Nature in her 'supreme moments,' in her finest forms and in her vital energy,-Nature as she was revealed to a discriminating eye, and to the poetic imagination." With this feeling he began his essay on 'Modern Painters' that grew to five volumes...
...Azara" is the first grand opera on an original subject ever composed throughout by a native-born American. For Professor Paine has written his own libretto as well as the music, and both words and music show genius of the highest order; the words in their dramatic power and poetic beauty, and the music in that it is free and original in spirit while preserving symmetrical form and proportion. The scene is laid in Provence about the time of the early Crusades. The opera is romantic in spirit, with a thrilling plot of many tragic situations and a happy denouement...
These writers, expressing themselves in prose form, chose themes of an essentially poetic nature. The leader and best example of this school was Chateaubriand. Although his writings treat of historical or philosophical subjects, they indicate a poetic cast of mind. In common with Beaudelaire, he gave expression to all his hopes, sympathies and ideas in a manner which reveals the true poet...