Word: poetics
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...grouping together, representations of three types of character, all different, yet all pointing to one ideal conception of manhood, he showed what power the language of music has to express the different phases and emotions of the human character. From the romantic reveries of the imaginative, poetic Manfred overture, through the life portrayed in Schubert's unfinished symphony, a life beautifully calm, yet with its moments of sorrow, finally, to that magnificent expression of manhood in Beethoven's grandest symphony, culminating in the glorious burst of triumph of the last movement, through all the picture of varied experience, there...
...Mead-slave Was Set Free" by William Vaughn Moody. As in almost all of Mr. Moody's poems, the language is vigorous and the thought sustained. That he has a large vocabulary and is able to use it well is one of the chief elements of whatever poetic strength the author may possess, - and one of the most notable features of the poem in question is the almost complete absence of commonplace expressions...
...church did much more than contribute to us its theology, for by insistence on certain types of felling, by its poetic lives of martyrs, and by its scriptural poems, it had a most powerful influence in the growth of culture. This growth extended through all the centuries from the 6th or 7th, when the new language of France was born, up to the 13th, when a new world had manifestly sprung forth. Arts of all sorts began to assert themselves. France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany and England all formed a new world in poetic life. And finally in Dante...
...verse of the number is of a character less strong than usual, although both of the two poems are far from mediocre. "Two Ships" has much of the poetic in it and the simile of the poem is apt. The strength which it possesses is somewhat crude and several lines are marred by bad accentuation, a fault noticeable in the author's "Sonnet," published in the Advocate some weeks ago. "To L. M.," is not so good as some of the verse Mr. McCulloch has written but it is a pleasant fancy and its poetry mirrors the sentiments of many...
...Verses." Both the "Ballads" and "Other Verses" possess what the verse of no other Harvard rhymer since Ned Martin, author of "The Little Brother of the Rich," has been able to claim, originality and finish. Mr. Garrison has not bayed at the moon, but appreciating the limit of his poetic power has chosen his themes well within it, and the rcsult is not a striving but an accomplishment...