Word: poetics
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...large, sat Mrs. Clans A. Spreckels of San Francisco, Lily Langtry, Yvonne-Printemps, the Duke of Connaught, the Count and Countess Vignal, Jean de Reszke, Lady Waterlow, Princess Radziwill and some 400 others. They listened to a score which is modern without eccentricity, melodious without stickiness, followed the poetic story of a Chinese beauty damned for loving too well, beheld scenes that were "lavish," "fascinating...
...poems, as might be expected, show considerable range within the very real and living poetic spirit. "Rondeau" by Whitney Cromwell is a light but charming illustration of the escape into Paganism and pastoral pleasantness that has characterized a good deal of Harvard poetry. Mr. Cromwell has the vision and the command of musical technique without the full transformation into poetry that greater power over words themselves gives to a poem. He depends rather upon the delights of image and music than upon the more distinctly literary delights of diction. Just this quality of exciting power in phrase is strong...
...there are enough decent limericks to fill a book--George Eernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, and others to the contrary notwithstanding. Mr. Reed is courageous; but, although his volume is not yet on sale; it is a good wager that the average of his selections will fall considerably below the poetic level of those delectable lines on "The Young Plumber of Leigh", which Mr. Bennett, if correctly quoted in the international book Review, puts forward as his favorites...
...education. Any person who has received a reasonably thorough drill in the fundamental qualities of good verse, according to the standards of his day, should perform creditably. The present generation, for example, has been trained to recognize the terseness and restraint that makes good free verse without destroying its poetic connotation. It can therefore assert with confidence that Carl Sandberg did not write such lines...
Other times, other criteria. The tests devised by Professors Abbott and Trabue cannot measure or even indicate intuitive poetic discrimination, which is something indefinable and intangible. The most they can accomplish is to determine whether or not the person being examined is sufficiently intelligent to assimilate what has been told him in the lecture room. A good memory is a very different thing from a sense of poetic values...