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Subject: ESTHETICS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AESTHETES, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The aesthetes read and wax contemptuous or en
Last Line: And run from the thing they blame?
Subject(s): Esthetics


ESTHETIC EXPERIENCE, by ETHEL MARY DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beauty to her was less in rough, gray thunder
Last Line: Her more articulate ashes told our blunder.
Subject(s): Beauty; Esthetics


ESTHETIC THEORIES ART, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poems, like lives, are doing what we can
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Esthetics


PROJECT FOR AN AESTHETIC SUB-TITLE: MOONLIGHT OF A MAN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mr. And mrs. Longfellow little who
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973); Paintings & Painters; Taste (esthetics)


SCARLET T-SHIRT: THE LYRIC MUSE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know I'm vulgar, but so
Last Line: And will not let it rest
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Taste (esthetics)


TASTE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have, alas, no taste
Last Line: Abundant, reckless, cheerful. Go screw, taste - %itself a tasteless suggestion
Subject(s): Taste (esthetics)


WITH AN ALBUM, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know not whether I am proud
Last Line: Even to words so dull as mine.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Taste (esthetics)