Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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]
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.
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 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
While most newspapers are aimed at a broad spectrum of readers, usually geographically defined, some focus on groups of readers defined more by their interests than their location: for example, there are daily and weekly business newspapers (e.g., The Wall Street Journal and India Today) and sports newspapers. More specialist still are some ...
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.
Negro World also played an important part in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The paper was a focal point for publication on the arts and African-American culture, including poetry, [8] commentary on theatre and music, and regular book reviews. Romeo Lionel Dougherty, a prominent figure of the Jazz Age, began writing for Negro World in 1922 ...
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 ...