Word: spenserian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sonnets are apt to be, and that is saying a good deal. After this comes a fairly amusing and lively story, "Bluff," by "B." Mr. R. S. Mitchell's poem, which follows, "From the Arabian Nights," is the best verse in the number, a pleasing experiment with the difficult Spenserian stanza, though, as we say in "Composition," courses, conspicuous more for "elegance than force." "When the Suspenders Came Off," a seasonal sketch, by Mr. Ben Sion Trynin, is the largest piece of fiction in this Monthly. It has the makings of a good story, but it is rather rough...
...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...