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Dante was the end of the first and beginning of the second period. The trouvere and the troubadour are responsible for the Vita Nouva and Divine Comedy. Love, the motive idea of the middle ages is the theme of all his work. On the other hand the spirit of the Renaissance enriched his mind and gave him a power of originality which distinguished his poems from those Italian songs imitated from Provencal models. Dante with the learning of the ancient world tells for the middle ages that Love is the great mover of the universe...
...Love will Find the way" is in certain respects one of the most ambitions pieces of prose in this number of the Advocate. The heroine of the tale is a chorus girl in Francis Wilson's Opera Company who is loved wisely and well by a Harvard man, who marries another girl, however, and who herself finally marries his valet. Cupid still continues to stretch "the silver cord of love" between the Harvard man and his operatic loved one, and as the correct working out of the plot demands that they should come together, the wife of the Harvard...
...Come Forth, My Love!" is perhaps the better of the two poems, and evidences some love of nature on the part of its author. There is a Swinburnian luxuriousness and verboseness about the whole poem, and in the first five lines especially we are impressed by the manifest prevalence of Nature-osculation. The metre of several lines is decidedly faulty...
...long promised book of nature-observation from the pen of the Secretary of Harvard College, Mr. Frank Bolles, has at last appeared, and in "The Land of the Lingering Snow," every Harvard man who has in him the slightest love of nature will take the keenest interest. In this delightful book, Mr. Bolles gives us "the chronicles of a stroller in New England from January to June" which embody in some twenty-six chapters the observations of a thorough Nature-lover who turns his back on his comfortable Cambridge home and cheerful back-log fire on many a day, when...
...affairs, his chief interest is in natural history, and he has trained himself to observe nature with great fidelity, and especially to study the habits of birds. He is most of all interested in the birds of New England, and whenever he is afforded an opportunity of studying the love-song of the bittern, or of watching the red-breasted robin, he is thoroughly happy. The power of minute observation which is every-where displayed - be it in discussing "The Coming of the Birds," or "The Equinoctial on the Dunes, "The Couquest of Pegan Hill," or "Chocoroa" and its valleys...