Word: musee
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...conditions of permanence? Immediate or contemporaneous recognition is certainly not dominant among them, or Cowley would still be popular,- Cowley, to whom the Muse gave every gift but one, the gift of the unexpected and inevitable word. Nor can mere originality assure the interest of posterity, else why are Chaucer and Gray familiar, while Donne, one of the subtlest and most self-irradiating minds that ever sought an outlet in verse, is known only...
...Salem, poem by young Holmes, son of Rev. Dr. Holmes of this town. He is both young and small in distinction from the others, and on these circumstances he contrived to cut some good jokes. His poem was very happy and abounded with wit. Instead of a spiritual muse, he invoked for his goddess the ladies present, and in doing so he sang very amusingly of his "hapless amour with too tall a maid...
Among the "Other Verses" the "Two Answers to Why I Read Herrick" and "Montauk Point" illustrate the range of Mr. Garrison's serious work. "Manque," which ends the volume, is extremely fine and belies its own estimate of its author's muse. As for us we believe in the promise contained in itself, and expect greater things from the last of our Harvard poets...