Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...verse of the number is good. The poem which to us seems to deserve the most praise ls "How the Mead-slave Was Set Free" by William Vaughn Moody. As in almost all of Mr. Moody's poems, the language is vigorous and the thought sustained. That he has a large vocabulary and is able to use it well is one of the chief elements of whatever poetic strength the author may possess, - and one of the most notable features of the poem in question is the almost complete absence of commonplace expressions...
...Vendome on Thursday, February 11 at half past six. Any former member of the school, whether or not a member of the association, may obtain a ticket by writing to Mr. Charles F. Spring, Boston. The Rev. Edward Everett Hale will preside, Mr. Robert Grant will read a poem, and addresses will be made by President Eliot, Bishop Brooks and others...
...only verse of the number is a seven-line poem entitled "The Quest." It is daintily conceived...
...verse of the number is a trifle below the Advocate's usual standard, although the triolet entitled "Leigh Hunt" is much the better of the two poems. "A Winter Song" could hardly be called a poem, however, for there is not a poetical image, simile, or turn of thought in the whole song, and the Shakspearian specificness of diction at which the author aims cannot be said to be happily attained...
...second volume of Professor Norton's translation of Daute's Divine Comedy has appeared and is for sale by the booksellers. The translation of the first division of the poem, Hell, has been reviewed at length in the CRIMSON and notice of the book at hand is unnecessary further than to say that the Purgatory, as a translation of marvelous accuracy rendered in surpassing prose, fullfills the promise of the first volume that if there is to be a universally standard translation of the Divine Comedy this work will fill that place...