Word: realism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Paul Shorey of the University of Chicago will give a lecture before the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. His subject will be "Realism and Idealism in Greek Literature and Art." The Lecture will be given at Association Hall in Boston. An invitation to attend is extended to all students in the University...
...natural reaction of conduct upon character: the suffering which he portrays has not been arbitrarily inflicted, but is the logical result of sin. His mind, despite his liberal tendencies, was of the seventeenth century type. The grim symbolism of his Hell is as stern and terrible as human realism can contemplate...
...Genius of Stephen Crane" by G. H. Montague is another critical writing. Though in the main appreciating Crane's genius as a writer of vivid war stories, it attacks his work in general on the ground that skeptical realism held him down to too narrow limitations...
...fifth lecture given by M. de Regnier, Saturday afternoon, was on "A New School of Poetry, the Decadents and the Symbolists." Poetry in France had been in great peril from the ever rising wave of naturalism and realism, to which all the poets were making concessions. But when the needed reaction came, poetry was thrust aside, and the poets, accepting their solitude, broke apart into groups. This was the situation in 1880 and it was a serious one as it tended to the establishment of a perilous byzantinism. The young poets of 1885 had a peculiar and a strange language...
...Regnier then commented briefly on the work of each of these men, laying considerable stress on the place of the sonnet. In the early eighties followed the reaction of idealism against realism. The new movement was headed by Paul Verlaine, Mallarme, and others. With them slowly arose the new school of poets called "decadents" or symbolists...