Word: lovelornness
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...many poets is to wrap their choice verses in collections of mediocre merit. To this rule, Miss Letts' latest publication is no exception. The mass of the poems harps rather vaguely on the conventional emotions which fill the crannies of men's minds. Mildly pesimistic warbles of the lovelorn, or the all-suffering optimism of toil-worn drudges, and the respectable melancholia of discontented city-folk receive a great deal of attention. As a safety valve for vague emotions, this poetry is pleasingly comfortable for its portrays little more than an armchair attitude toward life...
...untutored ones felt instinctively that then they were hearing the best music of the piece. The first and last acts are mostly dialogue sprinkled here and there with an aria of the light opera type, pretty, trite, unsuitable to snorting drama. The second act is different, written for no lovelorn gentlefolk, but for a great primitive mass, sung by them, savagely, hauntingly, throbbingly, masterfully done...
...What a Nurse. Sidney Chaplin, who since the success of Charley's Aunt has become virtually a perpetual female impersonator, has another one of the type. It is a fairly amusing tale about a man who wrote an "Advice to the Lovelorn" column and had to put on skirts because his dear public was pleased to meet...
...unmitigated bliss, at least long enough to father some little Bruns, whom we follow to their several graves. Aricie is the unselfish daughter who, after losing a gallant military lover, serves her family in season and out; hands over a later suitor-her last chance-to her lovelorn cousin; fusses over the little nephews and great-nephews as they grow up into soldiers, painters and poets out of the mercantile tradition of the family. Aricie grows "inhuman through excess of altruism," a woman who kills herself with kindness to others...
Legend nourishes the play. Into the spirit of a lovelorn girl enters the spirit of her dead lover, driven from her by the mean ambition of her family. It must be exorcised by mighty, most holy incantation...