Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coleridge was visited with the Muse and was henceforth haunted. Wordsworth was of the opposite poetic type. Whether the bulk of his literary achievements are so much greater than Coleridge's is uncertain. Whether his gift stayed with him to the last is likewise uncertain. He went on droning 'the still sad music of infirmity...
...their lives were the two men similar. But they were the two most original poetic minds of their generation. Their influence on each other was very great but the influence of Wordsworth on Coleridge was probably the greater...
GRAVES (Robert) Poetic Unreason...
...Many poetic and dramatic geniuses flourished during this period," Professor Eliot continued, "but I regret that some of the plays are not better than they are. The desire for comic relief on the part of the audience is a craving of human nature, due to an inability to concentrate. An audience which can maintain its attention on pure tragedy is more highly civilized than any other audience. 'Racine's 'Berenice', in this respect represents a peak of human civilization...
...epic theme. The author has imitated classic simplicity and primitive crudeness; he has made his characters tell the tale, and thereby lost the godlike detachment of the theme; he has tried the balled stanza and has made a Indicrous failure of that difficult form so losing all claim to poetic merit. Use of the classic device anacolnthon has made ungrammatical hash, unpalatable, wretched English, as witness the line. "Yet many, like myself, am slave." This is not to say that there are no good lines in the poem, nor that the treatment in places is not amazingly fine...