One Art or published. Bishop's life was marked by loss and instability, which is reflected in many of the poems of "Geography III". "One Art" is narrated by a speaker who details losing small items, which gradually become more significant, moving, for example, from the misplacement of "door keys" to the loss of "two cities" where the speaker presumably lived. The poem is a villanelle, an originally French poetic form known for generally dealing with pastoral themes. Brad Leithauser wrote of the poem that, in addition to "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas, that it "...might have
An Inquiry into the Good readers as the first truly creative work by a Japanese that did not merely repeat western ideas, and yet made use of modern thinking and terminology." However, according to Smart, the work was criticized by the philosopher Takahashi Satomi, who found the subjectivism of "pure experience" too psychological. An Inquiry into the Good An Inquiry into the Good, also known as A Study of Good, () is a 1911 book by the Japanese philosopher Kitaro Nishida. The work has been described as a masterpiece. Graham Parkes, writing in "The Oxford Companion to Philosophy" (2005), described "An Inquiry into the Good"