Word: sonneteer
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...December number of the Graduates' Magazine is graced with a garland of appreciation contributed by eminent writers in honor of Professor Norton's eightieth birthday. A sonnet by Edith Wharton heads the list, and there follow letters from Ambassador Bryce, President Eliot, Horace Howard Furness, R. W. Gilder, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, W. D. Howells, G. H. Palmer, Bliss Perry, Goldwin Smith, and Andrew D. White. President Eliot traces the development of Mr. Norton's courses at Harvard-a most interesting history to follow, especially for those of us to whom Fine Arts 3 and Fine Arts 4 seemed as ancient...
...rest of the verse in the number is less ambitious. There are two sonnets, and a scene from nature in quatrains. Under the title "Them Marionettes," R. Altrocchi has cleverly adapted from the Neapolitan of Trilussa the description of a box of puppets after the play is over. The incongruity of the masquerade of dialect words and phra67ses in the most exquisite of literary forms humorously suggests the world of the marionettes, and the perfect equality and fraternity that prevail in the box symbolize the artificiality of social distinctions. This point is obscured, however, by the simile "like slaughtered sheep...
...literary side, the first article is by Mr. Altrocchi, who also has a sonnet in this number. If the author falls short of complete effectiveness, it should be said for him that he undertakes a more difficult task than the other contributors. The sonnet ("Ad Astra") shows earnestness of spirit and a sense of form, but it lacks vividness and consistency. It is sometimes conventional, or even prosaic. Mr. Altrocchi's story, "Between Fires," is for the most part well-written, though the time sequence is clumsily handled at one point. The description of the lover's symptoms...
...verse only "Vistas," by John Hall Wheelock, attains distinction. Four or five of its eight lines are very good. It makes you wish that Mr. Wheelock had tried to be similarly concise in his other verses, "For a Book of Poems," for even the fourteen lines of a sonnet are more than he needs for the expression of his thought...
...poetry, Mr. J. S. Reed's sonnet on "Tschaikowsky" is marred by confused imagery; Mr. Wheelock's "From one Exiled Inland" conveys with pathos, yet not without a touch of exaggeration, the feeling of homesickness for the sea; and Mr. E. E. Hunt's ballital shows surprising success in a very difficult form of verse. A fantasy like Mr. C. H. Dickerman's "The Haunted Palace" could only be regarded as successful through the excellence of its technique. But the writer allows himself too much license to claim any triumph of this kind. Whenever the thought presses against the limits...