Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jorge Guillen characterized the Spanish Seventeenth Century humanist poet Luis de Gongora as "a poetic architect" who "constructed an art comparable to the works of Picasso," in his third and final Charles Eliot Norton Poetry Lecture last night...
Gongora was a Seventeenth Century mystic, "impassioned by the beauty of the world," who tried to generally reform the Church intellectuals of his time...
Cornell's two remaining scorers were sixteenth and seventeenth; Eddie Martin of Harvard was twentieth...
Since the time of this first Harvard-Yale vs. Oxford-Cambridge track meet the world has become inured to international athletic contests. Consequently, few people are working themselves into a frenzy over the seventeenth in this venerable series which will be staged on Soldiers Field, June...
What made Lorca change from his popular combinations of the old romantic meter (the lines and construction in his Romancero Gitano are very like EI Cid) with inflamed Gongorisms from the seventeenth century and scenes from contemporary Andalusian life was not the influence of Dali's artistic personality, nor the surrealist attempts of his not-so-friendly literary rival Rafael Alberti. We must recognize now with the settling effects of two decades since Lorca's death, that he took on this radically different form only as a means to express his similarly different subject matter. It should be apparent that...