Word: poetics
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...were not bad enough to have one's intellect weighed, measured, and neatly pigeon holed at the hands of leering psychologists, two university professors have now undertaken to prove that one's poetic discrimination can be dissected and catalogued in the same way. The test, as set forth in the "New Republic" is simplicity itself. The student is shown a bit of verse by a reputable poet, who may be any one of a number ranging from Mother Goose to Carl Sandberg, and three artistically mutilated versions of the same. If he has a keen discrimination in poetry...
...abundance of the wonderful in modern life has destroyed wonder, thinks Professor Canby, and wonder, has always been the filip to the poetic imagination. The marvels of science have swept away the naive curiosity with which former generations gaped at nature. But a new kind of wonder has arisen--wonder at man. The recent holocaust awoke amazement at the sordidness and stupidity with which man orders his own destiny. A whole literature of disgust has sprung forth to prod man into the realization of his incapability...
Selecting only twenty-six names from the galaxy of genius which the nineteenth century brought forth, he includes only one Englishman among them. This fortunate is Sir Walter Scott. With a Pecksniffian wave of his hand, he disposes of all the array of poetic brilliance from Wordsworth to Tennyson. It is evident on the face of it that Signor Croce has not written a history of European literature in the nineteenth century...
...city sonnet contest is the second of six international poetic contests organized by Mrs. William H. Bartlett to establish poetry on an international platform. Over 800 sonnets were submitted of which 30 received votes for first, second, and third place...
...City of New York, from which he was graduated in 1891. He then turned to editorial work and used the famous blue pencil in such offices as those of The Woman's Home Companion and The Literary Digest. With such editorial apprenticeship, he was able to become a poetic journalist with great facility and success, without losing any of his pristine talents. His rhymed reviews in Life have charmed for years. It is a hard enough task to be a reviewer of books for several years; but to be a rhymed reviewer for many years shows a consistency...