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At its most basic, 'newspaper poetry' refers to poetry that appears in a newspaper. In 19th-century usage, the term acquired aesthetic overtones. Lorang, discussing newspaper poetry's reception in the United States, observes that '[p]erhaps the most commonly espoused view was that newspaper poetry was light verse unworthy of the space it required and unworthy of significant consideration'. [1]
While the newspapers reported of highly successful public performances, the Soviet literary critics approached the poem with caution. One unreservedly positive review came from Novy Mir (No.9, 1925). "Of all that he have now in the Russian poetry on Lenin, Mayakovsky's poem stands out as the most significant thing...
The oldest newspaper still in print in the world. Still published as a daily (paper and online) newspaper. 1665 [21] Oxford Gazette: English Oxford: England From issue 24 in 1666, the paper was printed in London and renamed London Gazette; [22] this is still published. 1666 Den Danske Mercurius: Danish Copenhagen: Denmark-Norway: 1673 ...
The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers (1980) 400 pages; Updated edition of Merrill, The elite press; great newspapers of the world (1968), which profiled 40 newspapers; Pettegree, Andrew. The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know about Itself (Yale University Press, 2014), covers Europe 1400 to 1800; Smith, Anthony.
When reviewing Lawson's poetry collection In the Days when the World was Wide and Other Verses, a writer in The Evening News (Sydney) noted: "Mr. Lawson is not, indeed, likely to be ever revealed in the character of a master singer, but so far as he goes he is really a minstrel of native fire, and not like a good many who pretend to that character, a merely ingenious imitator or adaptor of ...
The Gazzetta di Mantova, the world's oldest newspaper still existing and published with the same name, was established in June 1664. [42] [43] [44] In 1668 the first Italian scientific journal was published, the Giornale de' Letterati, following the Journal des sçavans and the Philosophical Transactions in style.
After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared on 11 December 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades.
From Grub Street to Fleet Street: An Illustrated History of English Newspapers to 1899 (2004) excerpt and text search; Conboy, Martin. Journalism in Britain: A Historical Introduction (2010) George Boyce, James Curran. Newspaper History from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (1978) Handover, P. M. A History of the London Gazette, 1665-1965 ...