Scott, F. R. (1899–1981) Reference library
Michael Gnarowski
The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry (2 ed.)
...the bar in 1927 , and became a member of faculty in 1928 , ending his career as dean of law, 1961–4 . As a result of his exposure to Fabianism at Oxford, and following upon the Great Depression, Scott became active in left-wing politics and was a founding member of the League for Social Reconstruction ( 1932 ), which led to the formation of a socialist political party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, now the New Democratic Party of Canada. He served the United Nations in Burma in 1952 , and was a member of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and...
Albania, Poetry of Reference library
R. Elsie
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4 ed.)
...autonomy were Pashko Vasa ( 1825–92 ) of Shkodra, whose poem O moj Shqypni, e mjera Shqypni (O Albania, Poor Albania), a stirring appeal for national awakening, was written in the dramatic years of the League of Prizren, 1878–80 ; and Naim Frashëri ( 1846–1900 ), now widely regarded as Albania’s national poet. Frashëri’s verse, pub. for the most part while he was living in Constantinople and very popular among Albanians at the time, included pastoral lyrics in the trad. of Virgil, heavily laden with the imagery of his mountain homeland; historical...
Indigenous Americas, Poetry of the Reference library
G. Brotherston
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4 ed.)
...ethnologist Alice Fletcher ’s ( 1838–1923 ) phonograph. At the turn on the 20th c., H. W. Longfellow ’s “Song of Hiawatha” ( 1855 ) was massively propagated throughout the U.S. school system and was the most read and performed poem of its day. Founder of the Iroquois League of Nations, its eponymous hero lives a life heavily reliant on Algonkian legend, as critics never tire of noting. What tends to be less noticed is the imaginative precision of Mide song symbols in the Eng.-lang. poem and Turtle Island perspectives that had been shared in any case by both...
Ireland, Poetry of Reference library
G. Batten
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4 ed.)
...make of “mere words” a model for the mod. love poem in Eng. As Yeats came to find aesthetically and intellectually crippling both Fenian nationalism and the Gaelic League with which he had allied his early literary interests, he developed a style that he hoped would seem “a moment’s thought” (“Adam’s Curse”), a poetry “as cold / And passionate as the dawn” (“The Fisherman”). Such art in its “arrogance” returned to the Protestant and Ascendancy heritage of Swift’s savage indignation, even as Yeats assumed, as poet, the mask of “the wise and simple” figure of the...
United States, Poetry of the Reference library
M. Cohen and M. Davidson
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4 ed.)
...expressions of individual alienation and as dramatic versions of fictional speakers. Before 1900 , poetry in America was much more often thought of as the expression of a group and, after the late 18th c., as the expression of a nation. The era after 1900 would seek to elevate poetry through an ever-increasing complexity of lyric expression, thus closing a period when all kinds of verse circulated as the most popular genres of literary production in the U.S. B. Modernist Poetry, 1900–1945. The “word of the modern, the word En-Masse” that Whitman celebrates...
Caribbean, Poetry of the Reference library
I. Phaf-Rheinberger, L. A. Breiner, M. Dash, and B. A. Heller
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4 ed.)
...of the West Indies ( 1958–62 ). This is not the poetry of a nation, nor of a people, nor of a single culture, nor even, strictly speaking, of a single lang. What do we gain by having a catchall phrase for any verse written in some variant of Eng. by someone associated with the Caribbean? Even naming the region itself requires choosing among incommensurate terms: “the Caribbean,” “Latin America,” “the Antilles,” “the West Indies.” But if the difficulties of naming this body of work might suggest that it is not really viable as a single object of...
