10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POETASTRY»
Discover the use of
poetastry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
poetastry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
I quote from Mr. Edmund Gosse: 1 Unless something is done to stem this flood of
poetastry the art of verse will become not merely superfluous, but ridiculous.
Poetry is not a f0rmula which a thousand flappers and hobbledehoys ought to be
...
2
The Pocket magazine of classic and polite literature. ...
Poetry, or rather poetastry, is another source of delight to them, and a mode in
which their derangement becomes manifest, and it is therefore in their words, and
in their writings, that we must seek for the .principal proofs of their insanity.
3
The Evangelical Intelligencer
Though I have not yet had your leave to tease you with my poetastry; yet I
presume to impose the enclosed upon you, and that as an omen of future trouble,
unless horror seize you at the dismal denunciation. The Survey of Human .Mzturc
...
William Powell Farrand, 1806
4
The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the ...
whose topics are used to accommodate the domestic history of English poetastry.
But to say this is to acknowledge that Dryden's mock epic is also, explicitly and
significantly, a “mock-political allegory” in which the customary signifying ...
5
Aleister Crowley: The Biography
that the 'man in the street' likes the pansy poetastry of W.H. Auden & Co.14 He
wrote to the War Office, advocating mobilization of the population into war work, a
conception central to Churchill's premiership after May 1940: TOTAL WAR.
6
Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature
... Days (23-4) - is just archaic, anarchic poetastry. The word miscegenation is
also an invention. It was 'coined by two Democrats in the presidential election
campaign of 1864 in an attempt to embarrass and discredit the Republican
incumbent ...
George Elliott Clarke, 2002
7
The Annual Review and History of Literature
But the Far- • Bier's Boy has too much good sense to deal in these despicable
common places of poetastry. Every one will be interested by the following
account of the poet's own escape from small-pox in infancy, and of his father's
death ; it is, ...
8
The Annual review and history of literature, A. Aiken ed
But the Farmer's Boy has too much good sense to deal in these despicable
common places of poetastry. Every one will be interested by the following
account of the poet's own escape from small-pox in infancy, and. of his father's
death ; it is, ...
9
Figuring Out Roman Nobility: Juvenal's Eighth Satire
Even if we do shy right away into daft execration of Nero's singing and poetastry
above his deathtoll, Nero sets the stage for Juvenal to direct a pantomime from
history of revenge on the wicked king, in which we are brought to contemplate the
...
10
Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato
Now here Dionysius at once censures the invocation to the Muses which
precedes it, thinking that it comes down suddenly like storm and tempest from a
clear sky, destroying the pure prose — a tastless piece of poetastry. And
Dionysius adds ...
Friedrich Schleiermacher, 1836
