IV. Aesthetic ideas

1. The short stories should be of brevity, totality, single effect, compression and finality.

2. The poems should be short, and the aim should be beauty, the tone melancholy. Poems should not be of moralizing. He calls for pure poetry and stresses rhythm.

V. Style – traditional, but not easy to read

VI. Reputation: “the jingle man” (Emerson)

VII. His influences