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Charles Hall Grandgent '83: Discourses on Dante. The book begins with a sestina and ends with a sonnet while throughout the whole are scattered fragments of translation from Dante's works and from his contemporaries' poetry...
...could have much worse. There may be many who will shudder at the sonnet beginning...
...written down at random, without revising, Mr. Smart's "Lines before a Fairy Tale", is wholly delightful; a small bit of decoration provocatively brief. Mr. John Abbott's "Marginal" is also a good picture, but, unfortunately, must join that great body of poems with weary last lines. His "Sonnet for Cynthia", too, dwindles away at the end; the three quatrains are memorable; the couplet is, in my opinion, artificial and irrelevant. Neither of these poems represents Mr. Abbott at his best. Another sonnet, contributed by Mr. Herbert Jones, begins well and then surrenders to the difficulties of form, tangling...
...believes that he gains in impressiveness by obscurely hinting at the concluding incidents instead of recounting them lucidly. Curiously enough, although Mr. Morrison's "Loaves and Fishes" is the only story not marked by too great an emphasis upon this method of suggestion, the verse that he contributes, a "Sonnet", in addition to certain faults of meter and metaphorical language, lapses into the enigmatical. A little study, of course, reveals the meaning, and the trouble here seems to be not so much an exaggeration of "suggestiveness" as the fact that the writer has not sufficiently defined his thought...
...poems, my own taste prefers Mr. Sedgwick's sonnet, which is far superior to the average run of Advocate poetry--of the recent past at any rate; and if Mr. Dobson's maintained for its will fourteen lines the swing and dash of its second quatrain, it too would deserve a place in the same high class...