society verse

American  

noun

1. light, graceful, entertaining poetry considered as appealing to polite society.

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Etymology

Origin of society verse

Translation of French vers de société

Example Sentences

He is of all composers of society verse and prose the lightest and the swiftest, and we may say to those who sneer at so unique a talent what Madame de S�vign� said of them in her day: "Tant pis pour ceux qui ne l'entendent pas!"

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However we may admire The Haunch of Venison and other stray pieces, Goldsmith was really not a writer of what is now called "Society verse."

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Vers de Société Vers de société, “society verse,” is a development of the last century; almost, one might say, of the last twenty-five years.

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Why “smoothly written verse, where a boudoir decorum is or ought always to be preserved: where sentiment never surges into passion, and where humour never overflows into boisterous merriment” should be conventionally called “society verse,” or “occasional verse,” is not very clear. 

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One may not be able to do the trick; but it is possible to see how the trick is done. p. xv“No one,” says Locker, when speaking of occasional or society verse, “has fully succeeded who did not possess a certain gift of irony.”

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