Word: sonneteering
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About the verse in general little need be said except that it is distinctly undergraduate work. The sonnet "To a Sea Gull," by Mr. Thayer, voices a graceful enough conceit; whether he is at sea or on land one is not quite sure, but one gets a true though faint breath of poetry and forgets defects...
...Madonna" is a sonnet which does not transmit to the reader the emotion under which the writer so evidently labored. The Spenserian stanza by Mr. Cummings, "Summer Silence," is excellent...
...Sans l'Amour" by C.G.H. is an ambitious attempt to express in terms now metaphysical, now symbolic, the thought in the title; yet, in spite of the impression of largeness and dignity given by many of the lines, it can hardly be called completely articulate. Frank Dazey's "Sonnet" is the best piece of verse in the number. As for the "Song" by Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow, it is written in what, I fear, the author supposed to be Scots dialect. It is about a little boy who heard a robin sing, and apparently died. In any case, when...
...Modern Language Conference Address on "The Invention of the Sonnet," by Dr. E. R. Wilkins, in Common Room, Conant Hall...
...Modern Language Conference. Address on "The Invention of the Sonnet," by Dr. E. H. Wilkins, in Common Room, Conant Hall...