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Example sentences for "modern poetry"

  • Matthew Arnold has said that the office of modern poetry is the "moral interpretation of Nature.

  • These last have the true classic severity, and are among the noblest specimens of weighty and sonorous blank verse in modern poetry.

  • His office, in other words, is the same which Matthew Arnold asserts to be the peculiar office of modern poetry, "the moral interpretation of nature.

  • On the whole, however, a fatalistic temper is much easier to trace in modern poetry than is this one.

  • And Ezra Pound, who began his career as an exemplar of virility,[Footnote: See The Revolt against the Crepuscular Spirit in Modern Poetry.

  • Modern poetry, in many lands, is inspired by sympathy with the poor and lowly; it reminds those who are well placed in life of their duties.

  • The skilful physician plays, on the whole, a striking rĂ´le in modern poetry; he is evidently the hero of the day.

  • In common with the majority of modern authors, Goethe has often invested weakness with the charm of amiability, as in modern poetry generally it is but too frequently the secret of amiability.

  • Modern poetry, in this respect, has, I think, followed the lead of the realistic prose novel.

  • Stanzas of this kind are met with also in modern poetry, as e.

  • This rule, however, is not without exceptions in modern poetry.

  • Its use is limited to certain kinds of poetic composition, whereas rhyme prevails over the wider part of the realm of modern poetry.

  • Over some of the heroines of modern poetry, the tomb has recently closed; and the flowers scattered there, could not be disturbed without awakening a pang in the bosoms of those who survive.

  • Modern poetry is still faced with the same problem; but very few of its adepts have reached so far as to be able to formulate it even with the precision of Keats's scattered allusions.

  • Gerard Manley Hopkins Modern poetry, like the modern consciousness of which it is the epitome, seems to stand irresolute at a crossways with no signpost.

  • Expressive to his age of the high and hallowing Spirit of Modern Poetry.

  • Tennyson: the Spirit of Modern Poetry," by G.

  • Enter Spirit of Modern Poetry, a lady with bobbed hair, clad lightly in horn glasses and a sex-complex.


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