Word: ballads
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second paper, read by Mr. H. McCulloch, was "An Historical Study of the French Ballade." It contained short treatises on the different famous writers of the ballad. The speaker said that many writers of this class of poetry have failed to succeed because of the heaviness of their work. In fact lightness and vivacity are almost indispensable to popularity in ballad writing...
...Moody, has something of the grandeur in thought of one of Wagner's conceptions, but is extremely unmusical. Some of its epithets are poorly chosen, and it seems rather strange for the "wild eye" to continue "glaring" after its owner has become "shriveled, dead." Mr. 'H. McCulloch's "Ballad" is a pretty fancy well expressed. The best of the poetical contributions is Mr. H. Bates' "Somewhere." It is imaglnative and melodious, and makes a pleasing and original poem out of what might have seemed a commonplace subject...