Word: poems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well-worn theme, "Tristram and Iseult," Swineburne has just completed a poem in nine books...
...vulgar goose quill or commonplace steel pen. A more poetical name might, perhaps, be invented for it, and we can easily imagine a poet addressing an ode to his stylograph, and introducing some simile such as, that as he carried stored up in the treasury of his brain the poem which is to be produced, so the servant stylograph contains within itself the hidden reservoir from which, at his will, ink sufficient for the writing will flow. Then, again, the stylograph is destined to play an important part in history. Think of the value that fortunate pen would possess which...
...Collegians," a poem in fourteen cantos, is a recent English publication...
...Kennedy, formerly of the Divinity School, has a poem, "Shadows," in the March Harper...
...taken from the legends and history of the better specimens of the Indian tribes of this country. Longfellow's "Hiawatha" is almost the only work of any note of this sort; and the popular success of that work has been by no means inconsiderable. A carefully finished and musical poem, "The League of the Iroquois," has recently appeared from the pen of a Western poet, Benj. Hathaway; it is well spoken of by the critics, and it certainly exhibits the richness of the field it takes for poets to work...