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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]
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 poem is not a conventional part of the Classical genre of Theocritan elegy, because it does not mourn an individual. The use of "elegy" is related to the poem relying on the concept of lacrimae rerum, or disquiet regarding the human condition. The poem lacks many standard features of the elegy: an invocation, mourners, flowers, and shepherds.
John A. Holmes, served as poetry editor for eight years; Francis H. Jenks, music and dramatic editor 1881–1894 [15] Howard Mumford Jones, book editor [16] Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., reporter; Kenneth Macgowan, drama critic; John P. Marquand, was a staff writer on the paper and later on its bi-weekly magazine after he graduated from Harvard ...
Still, critics note that although government's ability to suppress journalistic speech is heavily limited, the concentration of newspaper (and general media) ownership in the hands of a small number of private business owners leads to other biases in reporting and media self-censorship that benefits the interests of corporations and the government.
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.
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry by Cleanth Brooks and Paul Rand. Harcourt, Brace 1975 ISBN 9780156957052 "Review of Poems, in Two Volumes by Francis Jeffrey, in Edinburgh Review, pp. 214–231, vol. XI, October 1807 – January 1808; Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 in audio on Poetry Foundation
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.