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On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry (Über naive und sentimentalische Dichtung) is a 1795–6 paper by Friedrich Schiller on poetic theory and the different types of poetic relationship to the world. The work divides poetry into two forms. Naïve poetry is poetry of direct description while sentimental poetry is self-reflective.
It is sometimes spelled "naïve" with a diaeresis, but as an unitalicized English word, "naive" is now the more usual spelling. [1] "naïf" often represents the French masculine, but has a secondary meaning as an artistic style. “Naïve” is pronounced as two syllables, in the French manner, and with the stress on the second one.
Luceafărul opens as a typical fairy tale, with a variation of "once upon a time" and a brief depiction of its female character, a "wondrous maiden", the only child of a royal couple—her name, Cătălina, will only be mentioned once, in the poem's 46th stanza.
Bereavement is a common theme of sentimental poetry. Friedrich Schiller discussed sentimental poetry in his influential essay, On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry. Isaac Pray described a sentimental poet as "He who plays off the amiable in verse, and writes to display his own fine feelings". [1] Romantic poetry is rooted in and springs from ...
His lyrical poetry has its roots in Romanian folklore intertwined with Kantian [48] and Schopenhauer's philosophy [49] and Buddhist cosmology. [50] Among his greatest poems are the romantic poems Floare Albastră (1872) and Luceafărul , as well as the series of five philosophical poems called Letters (1881–1890).
Catullus 51 is a poem by Roman love poet Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 – c. 54 BC).It is an adaptation of one of Sappho's fragmentary lyric poems, Sappho 31.Catullus replaces Sappho's beloved with his own beloved Lesbia.
His editorial debut was the poetry book Sensul iubirii ("The Aim of Love"), which appeared under the Luceafărul selection, in 1960. He also was the recipient of numerous awards for his verse, the most important being the Herder Prize in 1975 and a nomination for the Nobel Prize in 1980.
Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [1] [2] [3] qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet.