Word: sonnets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...when the first number of volume I was put on sale they had been told that twenty-six years later the sixth number of volume III would be composed of two pages of editorial, a short article on an approaching athletic contest with Yale, a poem, a sonnet, a review of their own labor, and about eight pages of fiction. They would probably have been still more surprised if they had been told what the character of this fiction would be; that there would be four stories, of very different lengths, and on very different subjects, but all alike...
...poetry of the number, outside the long poem by W. V. Moody already mentioned, consists of a sonnet by P. H. Savage, and a quatrain entitled "Art," by P. B. Goetz. The sonnet is not up to its author's standard, being rough in meter, and not more than common-place in conception. The quatrain is strong and suggestive...
...Menoetes," a sonnet, by E. A. Robinson, is not so successful, though it contains good lines...
There is but one poem in the number, a sonnet entitled "The Athlete." It is marked by a certain rythmical smoothness, but in one or two places is a trifle obscure...
...extremely mediocre college sonnet follows the Kodaks and precedes a sketch very cleverly done called. "Looking Backward." R. C. R. puts himself on indefinitely and looks back to describe the storm which took down the electric wires when Boston was still meshed in their death...