Word: quatrains
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...poetry of the number, outside the long poem by W. V. Moody already mentioned, consists of a sonnet by P. H. Savage, and a quatrain entitled "Art," by P. B. Goetz. The sonnet is not up to its author's standard, being rough in meter, and not more than common-place in conception. The quatrain is strong and suggestive...
...Learning," is a quatrain of much suggestiveness, but the manner is not worthy of the matter. "The Pessimist," is not as good as some of the author's previous work, but the fact that the metre is the same as that of many famous poems perhaps makes one over-critical...