First, Kingston appears to regard poetry less as a practice to be mastered than as a state of mind to be inhabited ("being the Poet").
He regarded poetry as a full-time occupation and, save for a few visiting university lectureships, never had anything resembling a full-time job.
Vassar Miller, whose lifelong struggle with cerebral palsy made the simplest tasks arduous yet who wrote 10 volumes of searing and highly regarded poetry, died on Oct. 31 at Houston Methodist Hospital.
What can never be denied is the range, gravity and intellectual reach of his work, and the fact that, from first to last, he regarded poetry a sa task of the utmost seriousness.
In a country that regards poetry as a pastime for the lost and the lonely – like, say, knitting tea cosies, or making wicker baskets – this is quite hard to understand.
Mario becomes fascinated by Neruda's art — they sing an amusing duet about metaphors — but his interest also has a practical side, for he regards poetry (correctly) as a tool for winning the love of the beautiful barmaid Beatrice.
This return to the tradition of Baumgarten is apparent in post-Kantian philosophy when it regards poetry and art as a form of the knowledge of the Absolute or the Idea, whether equal to philosophy, inferior and preparatory to it, or superior to it as in Schelling's philosophy (1800) where it becomes the organ of the Absolute.
F. D. Reeve, who gave up an incipient acting career in his early 20s because he feared that immersing himself in dramatic characters might erode his own poetic voice, and who went on to write 10 volumes of highly regarded poetry, died on June 28 in Lebanon, N.H.
Like many of his contemporaries, Hume regards "poetry and the polite authors" as the most important arts (PW 3, 19).
Hegel regards poetry as the "most perfect art" (PKÄ, 197), because it provides the richest and most concrete expression of spiritual freedom (in contrast to sculpture which, in its classical form, gives us the purest ideal beauty).
