Word: poetics
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...part of the feast had been cleared away, the exercises of the evening were begun with an oration by Mr. Hamilton, whose witty, erudite, and inspiring words met with enthusiastic applause. After all was quiet again, President Coolidge called for the poem from Mr. Wether-bee. The piquant and poetic allusions to class victories and virtues were duly appreciated, and the flights of fancy which were interspersed, received their due meed of attention and approbation...
...would be wrong to say that many of them are not also very successful. The excellent rhythm and the charming sincerity are characteristics that are always attractive, partly because at the present time at least, they are rather uncommon. Some of these poems suggest real ability and poetic taste, Although in places the poetic sentiment seems to have been sacrificed to rhyme and metre and although many of the subjects can hardly be called new or said to be treated with any conspicuous originality, yet few will say that the author has made a mistake by going into print...
...humorous in verse, with its true, natural unforced sentiment, with its unborrowed thought, and if Harvard can show any productions excelling these in average she will do well. 'Imagination killed a man,' and we fear that Harvard has a great deal of this quality (i. e., not poetic imagination). As our next door neighbor says: 'A man stuck on himself is the most pitiable of mortals, for he knows not the infinite pleasure of calling himself an ass." The East, on the whole, has too good an opinion of herself. Harvard, Yale and Princeton so frequently announce that they cannot...
...Fortnight very justly and creditably takes exception to the disparaging remarks made by Mr. Howells in Harper's Monthly on "amateur rhymsters." Mr. Howell's remarks probably affect men in college more than others, for most "amateur rhymsters" are usually college men also. The work of amateurs in the poetic art he would discourage by means of "most brutal" criticism. Why amateur verse should receive brutality any more than the most professional verse that has ever been written, we find it hard to see. On the contrary, we think that young poets should have encouragement, not discouragement. If poetry...
...American's knowledge. This is the work of Harvard poets. The work of our poets is the model of the western college poetasters and is therefore simply another example of our increasing greatness. As such, let us consider it for a moment. Of course we have differentiations of the poetic sense. We have the love ditty, the laboriously elaborated scholastic exercise, the philosophical sonnet, the frothy nothing, and the pessimistic snarl. A great portion of the writing is naturally the direct outcome of affectation, much of the rest from an ambition to shine as a literary light. But here...