Word: poetics
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...true that Wordsworth "has no style"? [Quoted from preface to M. Arnold's "Selections from Wordsworth," xxii. Contra: Principal Shairp's "Aspects of Poetry;" Essay, Poetic Style in Modern English Poetry...
...began "The Task", which was published in 1785, immediately ensuring his reputation. It illustrates the light of religious yearning of the time, but is famous because of the beautiful and truthful descriptions of nature and of domestic scenes. Cowper broke away more completely than Wadsworth from the old poetic diction, but he did not realize he was doing something new. Later he took to translating Homer but met with no success...
...course on English Literature. The subject was Alexander Pope. "It is necessary," he said, "in studying any author to consider carefully not only his life in connection with his works, but also the the life and political conditions of his time. There is always an intimate connection between the poetic and political life of any period and of none is this more true than of the Elizabethan time...
Later came James IV whose handsome person a poetic nature attracted to his court and circle of literary men. William Dunbar, the first of these was little known when he came to court. He had been of the Order of St. Francis, but had never liked his profession. At court he wrote innumerable verses on court incidents-which were full of life and vigor. So good was his work that Scott called in the first poet of Scotland to the time of Burns. He too was a follower of Chaucer...
...legends of the Germans were the result. This classic period was succeeded by a time when the Germans lost somewhat their national feeling, - the time of Charle magne and universal Empire. At this time, also, there was a revival of interest in the Latin writers and in philosophy. Accordingly, poetic creation languished; and during the 8th and 9th centuries we may say that classical and Christian culture was everywhere penetrating and changing Germany...