Word: ballads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cranch, known to many graduates if not to many present members of the college, has discovered an old New England ballad, entitled, "The Mournful Ballad of Isaac Abbott," and published it in artistic pamphlet form. The tale is in truth most mournful, being an account of the ill-fated Isaac, and telling...
...amusing incident in early college life, and the Portrait of a Pencil is a very well conceived tale. In Dr. Palmer's Experiment we have another of the double-identity stories which are so frequent in current literature. Mr. McCleary has contributed an exceedingly bright poem entitled. The Ballad of the Climcha Isles. It gives evidence of sound imagination. and is written in very smooth lines through which flows a subtle undercurrent of delicious humor. The remaining poetry deserves no particular notice. Finally we would call attention to a very ably written review of the new Quarterly Journal of Economics...
...present issue, while less attractive than the last to the general reader, is without doubt the best exponent of Harvard undergraduate thought yet published. The leading article by Mr. C. P. Parker, entitled "Reminiscences of Oxford," relates concisely and sympathetically the writer's memories of Oxford undergraduate life. "A Ballad of a Windy Day" is not in Mr. Houghton's most successful vein. But many of the lines are particularly pleasing, as for example...
...poetry makes up for the deficiency in quantity by excellence in quality. Mr. Houghton's "Ballad of April Days," reprinted from Mr. Adam's "April," is not equal in execution to former work of the author, but in subject is particularly pleasant, and in conception is really charming. But the sonnet by Mr. Santayana, which treats of faith, must be regarded as one of the most attractive, perhaps the most attractive feature of the April Monthly. It is something that calls for more than one reading, that does not leave the mind almost as soon as it has entered...
...musical, show much purity and simplicity, and their genuineness more than atones for any lack of polish. Mr. F. S. Palmer's verses in his Ode to Herrick, are more musical and better tuned. They cannot fail to stir a genuine lover of Herrick. Mr. A. B. Houghton's Ballad of Pleasure Seekers, though far above the average of college verse, is not, we think, quite up to the standard of his former work, in spite of a number of lines more than ordinarily good. It is likely that many will object to the gloomy sentiment of this poem...