Word: jerusha
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first time. The book is divided into two parts, the first, called "First Strokes" includes pieces written before 1882. Some of the poems notably "Sweet Sleep" and "Accusation" show good ideas and a delicate appreciation, but, as might be expected, as a whole the style is crude and unfinished. "Jerusha Slum's Trvals" is a series of letters in the Samantha Allen style of literature and "Caleb Dinsmore, Jr." is a romantic and elaborate but slightly improbable story...
...Boston Bridge" are the opening verses of the number and are very happily conceived. "Jerusha Howe," spinster, is a good story, and stands in interesting contrast with "Roses and Cypress" in the last Advocate by the same author. In both stories the light coquetry and vanity of a pretty young girl brings on the death of her lover. This motive, always a fascinating one, is as well brought out in the hills up here in our bleak New England during the Revolution as it was in the warm sun of the Riviera. A bright poem entitled "Letters" follows this...
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