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21ST century American poetry, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, MOTHERHOOD, REALISM in literature, LITERATURE & culture, and POETRY (Literary form)

The article discusses the element of sentimentalism in contemporary American poetry on motherhood. It states how the realism concept is used in American poetical literature to depict motherhood as a happy event and eliminate the sentimentality. It also discusses how motherhood poetry should abide by the norms of literary and cultural aesthetics. It mentions poets like Sophie Jewett, Anne Bradstreet and Rachel Zucker.

SENTIMENTALISM in literature, ABSURD (Philosophy) in literature, AESTHETICS, FAREWELL to Arms, A (Book : Hemingway), NAKED the Dead, The (Book : Mailer), AMERICAN literature, HEMINGWAY, Ernest, 1899-1961, and MAILER, Norman, 1923-2007

Illustrates America's thriving sentimental aesthetic tradition, which the author characterizes as poetics of the absurd. Examination of Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" and Norman Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead" to argue artistic evolution from the sentimental to the absurd imagination; Nature's sympathy for man's fate in Hemingway; Absurdity of moral displacement in Mailer.

SENTIMENTALISM in literature, POETRY (Literary form), and GENDER

The article examines sentimentality in the poetry of Mary Oliver. It refers to the boundaries of sentimentality and considers the gendered assumptions associated with sentimentality. It highlights the connections between sentimentality and gender in Oliver's poetry. It analyzes Oliver's book-length poem The Leaf and the Cloud.

SENTIMENTALISM in literature, LITERATURE, POETS, MODERNISM (Literature), and CONFERENCES & conventions

The article discusses the concept of sentimentality and its use in literature. It focuses on the panel discussion "A Symposium on Sentiment" during the 2010 Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference which looked at the current state of sentimental affairs. It is said there is a growing resistance to sentiment among poets due to modernism. The possible eradication of sentiment in the crusade to root out sentimentality in poetry is also discussed.

SENTIMENTALISM in literature and NOVELISTS

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THACKERAY, William Makepeace, 1811-1863, ENGLISH novelists, CYNICISM, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, NOVELISTS, and LITERATURE

This article profiles English novelist W.M. Thackeray. Thackeray is the sad victim of much hackneyed faultfinding. It is the proper thing to say of Thackeray that he moralizes. It is also the proper thing to say of him that he pictured only the narrow little world he saw. The two indictments are mutually destructive, but both are nevertheless the proper thing to say. It is the proper thing to say of Thackeray that he was a sentimentalist, and it is the proper thing to say that he was a cynic. The two characteristics are, on the face of it, mutually exclusive, but they are the correct things to say of Thackeray.

POETS, CRITICS, SELF-expression in literature, and SENTIMENTALISM in literature

The article discusses difficulty in interpretation of themes and ideas of the English poet Christina Rossetti's works. It mentions that the poetry forces a person to use a writer's works and context such as social, historical, literary and motivational. It also mentions that critics described her writing as 'pure poetry,' which is comprised of sentiment and self-expression.

POETRY (Literary form), SENTIMENTALISM in literature, BEREAVEMENT, AFFECT (Psychology), and EMOTIONS

This article presents tips for poets on how to express sorrow without sentimentality. Because grief and mourning are fundamental and universal topics for poetry, it is hard to avoid these subjects in one's career. The author discusses how poets writing about grief avoid the commonplace and express their unique experiences.

POETRY (Literary form), EMOTIONS in literature, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, and SINCERITY

The article presents a conversation between the author and her friend and fellow poet Joy Katz focusing on the role of sentiment, emotion, and sincerity in contemporary poetry. Topics include how formal elements can be used by a poet to express emotion without becoming overly sentimental, and works by poets including Fred Moten, Ross Gay, and Montana Ray are discussed.

AMERICAN literature -- History & criticism, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, and COURTSHIP in literature

A literary criticism of the novel "Precaution" by American writer of the 19th century James Fenimore Cooperville is presented. It outlines the characters and explores the symbolic significance of these characters. It examines writer's own disposition of courtship that remains at the very center of all his tales in the novel. An overview of the story is also given.

SENTIMENTALISM in literature and ENGLISH literature -- History & criticism

A review of the article "Natural Desire and Natural Mortality in A Sentimental Journey" by Jeffrey Smith, which appeared in the journal "The Shandean" in 2011 and 2012, is presented.

SENTIMENTALISM in literature, THEMES in poetry, and POETRY (Literary form)

The article presents a speech by American poet Sally Ball delivered at the symposium on the sentiments of the poets, held in Denver, Colorado in 2010, in which she discusses the lyric evasion of poems, contends that poets do have their own reasons to distrust sentiment, but notes the necessity of openness if poems should integrate what really thrills humans.

SENTIMENTALISM in literature, THEMES in poetry, and POETRY (Literary form)

The article presents a speech by American poet Jenny Browne delivered at the symposium on the sentiments of the poets, held in Denver, Colorado in 2010, in which she narrates her own views on poems, considering those without emotional component unmemorable as they try to avoid the mess of being human.

SENTIMENTALISM in literature, POETRY writing, and THEMES in poetry

The article presents a speech by American poet Joy Katz delivered at the symposium on the sentiments of the poets, held in Denver, Colorado in 2010, in which she relates her encounter of force against sentiment in writing her first poems, mentions their cold verses, and mentions some of the poems written by other poets.

SENTIMENTALISM in literature, POETRY writing, and THEMES in poetry

The article presents a speech by American poet Kevin Prufer delivered at the symposium on the sentiments of the poets, held in Denver, Colorado in 2010, in which he indicates that sentimentality can be bad when it already subverts the complexity of emotion and believes that gauging a poem's complexity is a good test for the usefulness of sentiment in it.

SENTIMENTALISM in literature, WOMEN poets, and WOMEN authors

The article presents a speech by American poet Sarah Vap delivered at the symposium on the sentiments of the poets, held in Denver, Colorado in 2010, in which she discussed how sentiment became dangerous for women poets noting that poets should risk their own shame so as not to pull down poetry for safety.

SENTIMENTALISM in literature and POETRY writing

The article presents a speech by American poet Rachel Zucker delivered at the symposium on the sentiments of the poets, held in Denver, Colorado in 2010, in which she recalls how writing about ones feelings was out of style as it leaves her no choice but to forge a new relationship with raw emotion in the Iowa Writers' Workshop in the 1990s.

SENTIMENTALISM in literature, THEATER, CYNICISM in literature, SKEPTICISM, and CULTURAL industries

This article literally appraises the drama "Caprice," performed by the Guild Theater. The real interest of the piece lies in the effort to guess just which of the two or three possible morals the author is going to choose. Sentiment proclaims, of course, that there is only one decent or satisfactory conclusion. To suggest otherwise would be, adds sentiment, to indulge the most disgusting cynicism and to leave in the mouths of the audience a most unpleasant taste.

POETS, READING, and SENTIMENTALISM in literature

An interview with Bob Hicok, author of collections of poems is presented. When asked how he get young students to care about reading, he said that his approach is that he do not push them to read poetry. He mentions that he has never been exhausted or worn out with poetry. He is scared and shock with the sentiment of his poems because he is a very sentimental person.