Word: dialects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...filled with engravings of portraits of many notable persons of her time. Josephine Lazarus has given us a sympathetic sketch of "Margaret Fuller" outlining the chief events of her life, closing with a graphic description of her tragic death and an analysis of her character. A pretty little dialect poem is "I's Never Feared for my Ould Man." "Benefits Forgot" is continued. "The Heart of the Tale" is a melodious bit of poetry showing thoughtfullness and feeling. There are a few other short poems...
...Dialect and Verse of Homer...
...published his In Memoriam, which can be compared to nothing else in poetry. It was not till 1875 that Tennyson appeared as a dramatic writer. Though he wrote a few good dramas, his genius was not dramatic. It was as a writer of studies in character and dialect that he especially excelled...
...Veteran" is a rather mediocre story from the stand point of college writing of an old man with a termagant daughter-in-law. It is told with patches of Yankee dialect...
...Norah's Excuse" is a life-like reminiscence told in the Irish dialect. No blame certainly attaches to a man who is not a master of dialect and who does not pretend to be. It is the writer who attempts to use a dialect which he has not thoroughly mastered who lays himself open to just criticism. And assuredly the substitution of "i" for "e," and the occasional use of "me" for "my" do not constitute good Irish dialect, - the author of "Norah's Excuse" to the contrary, not withstanding. A study of the masters of the Irish dialect...