Word: sonnet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wife. The tale is skillfully told. The whole story of the two lives is faintly hinted at, although nothing but the closing chapter of that story is given. It would be difficult to find an unnecessary word in the last two pages. Mr. Dodge's essay, "What is a Sonnet?" is the best piece of work in this number of the Monthly. The writer examines the various forms in which the sonnet has appeared, traces the historical significance of each form and points out in what respects the sonnet has failed hitherto to fulfil all the needs of the poets...
...Sonnet" is very pleasing, and as the production of a writer hitherto unknown in the Monthly, if I mistake not, is distinctly encouraging...
...rather turgid sonnet on "Evangline" begins the number; then, after the editorials, a rather powerful story, the treatment of which is new, though the phraseology is somewhat stiff and threadbare. Following are three sweet, dreamy stanzas, entitled "Homeward." They improve on second reading, and with the couplets headed "Another Answer," bring the verse of this issue much above the average. Between the these two intervenes a not very pointed and somewhat cynical story, "Broen's Mistake." It has one fatal fault that it is not true to nature; now who does write truely cannot act truely, and his work...
...Love" gives its title to a second sonnet, of which the music is rythmic and the rythm melodious, but the wording is stale, flat and unprofitable, and again a subject is only new when expressed in fresh language and a genuine appreciation...
...what one wants; out we want it so to strike upon the retina as to give us a distinct, forceful picture, not a mere jumble like the images of a kaleidoscope. Besides these prose works the number contains two poems which are not very good. Mr. Sanford's sonnet is especially rough. There are one or two beautiful lines in it, but the general effect is crude and contradictory...