Word: poetics
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...poem, "A Vision," shows an earnest sympathy and intensity of feeling, but has unfortunately many marks of artificialness that jar upon the reader but still do not affect him very strongly, inasmuch as he feels that the artificialness exists only in the phrase and not in the poetic current...
...real way of life and of thinking prevalent among all classes. In former days a similar result was brought about, as the editors of the first Harvard Register (1827) said in their introduction: "Many of us frequently lay aside the speculations of Plato, the oratory of Demosthenes, the poetic splendors of Homer, and the triangles of Legendre, to assume the looks, the tones, the authority, and that still more efficient instrument, the ferule, of country schoolmasters. By this means we season our visions, theories and demonstrations with something of practical, political and statistical wisdom...
...Society for the Prevention of Poets proposes to raise the price of poetic license...
...there is none which is more likely to influence poetry and literature, as well as practical life, than the stylograph. Poets have always looked with peculiar veneration on the pens which have enabled them to transcribe their flowing thoughts, and the stylograph is a much more proper object for poetic inspiration than the vulgar goose quill or commonplace steel pen. A more poetical name might, perhaps, be invented for it, and we can easily imagine a poet addressing an ode to his stylograph, and introducing some simile such as, that as he carried stored up in the treasury...
...course of study in English 2 embraces a number of Shakespeare's plays. In recitation, a student reads aloud a certain amount which is then commented on by the instructor. In a course like this, when some of the finest dramatic and poetic passages in English literature are met with, we should naturally expect some attempt at elocution, or, at least, some interest in trying to read well. But the fact is that nowhere is heard such dismal exhibitions in elocution, and even the recurrence of the finest passages seems to fail to relieve the prosiness of delivery. It would...