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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Rejecting the lead of a rival writer on economical topics, Mr. Carey does not introduce his great work with an original poem, but in its place we find the volume accompanied by a whole galaxy of literary satellites, all more or less quaintly humorous. There is a pathetic little novelette, by J. Wharton, on "National Self-Protection"; several brief and brilliant essays by Henry Carey Baird, such, indeed, as make the reader long for more, or at least return to his Noali Porter with a relish; and then two tender, almost poetical; morceaux in that rich vein of thought which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR HUMOROUS WORKS. | 2/11/1876 | See Source »

...Dickinsonian publishes a poem entitled "Sub Silentio," which for indecency is unsurpassed. It is surprising that the public opinion of any American college, large or small, will tolerate such a thing; and if the gross sensuality of the Dickinson poet is at all characteristic of his college, a state of morals must exist there as low and as dangerous as the most ardent hater of liberal education could desire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 2/11/1876 | See Source »

...imaginative faculty appears to be finely developed at Adrian College. The last number of the Recorder contains three original stories, a poem about Henry Wilson, and a reference to the "Shah" of Egypt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

...poem in the same paper is pleasing as indicating the spread of civilization in Western Massachusetts. It is a drinking-song, beginning

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 10/29/1875 | See Source »

...Amherst papers have usually appeared to consider Lyceum lectures the only legitimate form of pleasure. This poem appears to be the first dawn of a coming day of jollity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 10/29/1875 | See Source »

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