Word: requiem
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...value and importance. Of the undergraduate articles, the essay on "Clever Modern Fiction" shows good sense of proportion and some felicities of phrasing; that on "Johnson and Addison" is clear and sound. The story "Don Decarnez" has atmosphere, though the ending is abrupt. Of the two poems the little "Requiem" is compact, well phrased and fresh in thought...
...lines read by Charles Warren at the opening of the Union are printed in this issue of the Monthly. Other poems in the number are "Worship," by Henry WymanHolmes, "The Song of the Brook," by R. M. Green and "Requiem," by Warren Seymour Archibald. The first of these has the ring of true poetry; in imagery it is unconventional and impressive, in wording dignified and strong. "The Song of the Brook," on the contrary, has neither marked originality nor beauty of phrasing to recommend it. Through the "Requiem"-on the death of President McKinley-runs sincerity of though, but, unfortunately...