Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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All poetry rests on one indispensable principle--the search for duty. There is poetry in everything, and it is the poet's part to find it and draw it out. One of the striking features of romanticism is the principle of "belief in inspiration."
A certain carelessness and negligence which appeared in the writings of the leading men of this period brought about in 1850 a reaction which came at a most propitious time, inasmuch as the best propitious time, inasmuch as the best work of the romanticists has been completed. The two leading...
In 1864 another reaction occurred which gave rise to the Parnassian School. Their work was made more difficult by the growing strength of the prose realism with its Stendhals, Balzacs, Daudets and Zolas. Nothing was more natural than that they should be conservative and pay much attention to verse form...
M. de 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...
The Christian Association has a membership of one hundred and sixty men. While this is not an increase over last year, the activity of the association is much greater. This is particularly true of the Bible classes, where the number of men is about four times as great as last...