sentimental poetry
1Sentimental poetry — is a melodramatic poetic form. It is aimed primarily at stimulating the emotions rather than at communicating experience truthfully. Bereavement is a common theme of sentimental poetry. Friedrich Schiller discussed sentimental poetry in his… …
2On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry — On Naive and Sentimental Poetry (Über naive und sentimentalische Dichtung) is a 1795 paper by Friedrich Schiller on poetic theory and the different types of poetic relationship to the world. v …
3Sentimental novel — The sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is an 18th century literary genre which celebrates the emotional and intellectual concepts of sentiment, sentimentalism, and sensibility. Sentimentalism, which is to be distinguished from… …
4poetry — It is a commonly acknowledged truism that reading and writing poetry are both valued and difficult exercises. Poetry has an important cultural position because it is often manifestly difficult, made so by the apparent obscurity of its… …
5Naive and Sentimental Music — Naïve and Sentimental Music is a symphonic work by the composer John Adams. The title of the work alludes to an essay by Friedrich Schiller, On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry , that contrasts a creative personality that creates art for its own sake …
6Obituary poetry — Their little souls to the angels flew.... Obituary poetry, in the broad sense, includes any poem that commemorates a person or group of people s death: an elegy. In its stricter sense, though, it refers to a genre of popular verse or folk poetry… …
7English poetry — The Seeds and Fruits of English Poetry, Ford Madox Brown. The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western… …
8Australian performance poetry — is not a recent phenomenon in English speaking Australia. It would not be beyond credibility to identify Henry Lawson as Australia s first professional performance poet, but there had been many performance poets in Australia prior to Lawson (real …
9Marathi poetry — Contents 1 Earliest Prominent Marathi Poetry 2 16th, 17th, and 18th Century Poetry 3 19th Century Poetry 4 20th Century Poetry and Latest Poetry …
10Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire — 1898 reprint title page Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire was a poetry collection published anonymously by Percy Bysshe Shelley in September, 1810 by C. and W. Phillips in Worthing and sold by publisher John Joseph Stockdale. The work was… …
