Word: poems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Increase Tarbox read an original poem on the Dwight family, which was well received...
...Advocate for Jan. 21st is out to-day. The number, as a whole, does not do itself justice. The opening piece is a poem "To Clinton Scollard" which, being somewhat involved, holds its own in college poetry. The next article, "A Fellow Traveller," is the first of a number of short anecdotes. It has the recommendation of being interesting, but one feels a strong desire to assist the author on the matter of proper names and to suggest that there is something disagreeable to the reader at finding the hero in a town, beginning with an F and followed...
...Ball," a poem (for want of a better word) of some half dozen stanzas, expresses in verse what the title says in prose, and it has this good point, that its author does not pretend to any wonderfully poetic idea, and does not try to express it in hexameter or pompous blank verse, and so we have a simple college poem which is sufficient unto itself...
...Atlantic Monthly for February continues a continuation of the joint story by Mrs. Oliphant and Mr. Aldrich. Whittier presents a pleasing poem, "A Day." Crawford continues Paul Platoff and John Fiske with his usual clearness offers an admirable paper on "The Federal Convention." The most notable paper, however, is the long expected poem by James Russell Lowell, "Credidimus Jovem Regnare." Among other papers are "Two Serious Books" by Harriet Waters Preston. "A Bird of Affairs" by Olive Thorne Miller and the first part of a story, "The Lady from Maine," by Lawrence Saxe. Mr. Winter and Mr. Langdon and Susan...
...placing the best where the worst should be and vice-versa, and in trampling the sense under the feet of most extraordinary similes and metaphors. There is good thought in this piece but it is so "hidden" that one finds difficulty in discerning it. About half way through the poem - we regret the inability to quote, - the metaphors clear away, and for some time there is real poetry we honestly think...