Word: stanzas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...verse is very much better. The first stanza of Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez's "The Game" is as good as any undergraduate verse one is likely to see in a long time, and the entire poem, though it does not keep up to this high level, is notable in its sincerity and vigor. Mr. Pulsifer's "The Riderless Horse" presents a striking idea with effective brevity, the difficult verse-form is fairly well handled, and the phrasing is at times admirable. The same writer's "Third Down," however, suffers from its close resemblance to four lines of Browning's "Meeting...
...write finished and fine-spirited verse. More sustained effort is manifest in Mr. Hunt's adaptation of the delightful Middle-English lay "Sir Orfeo." This rendering--of which half is postponed to the December number-- is of striking excellence. Mr. Hunt employs with good effect an eight-line stanza, instead of the rhyming couplets of the original, but he adheres closely to the meaning and tone of the old poem. This is the only good translation of "Sir Orfeo" that has yet been made into modern English, and would be welcomed by many if published in separate form
...December number of the Monthly opens fitly with tributes to President Eliot from three men of note, Ambassador Bryce, President Hadley of Yale, and President Wilson of Princeton. On these follows "A Leaf of Bay," a simple and musical two-stanza ode in praise of a warrior who has conquered and may now rest. The collocation suggests that the allusion is to President Eliot, who certainly will watch the young men with undiminished interest as they "look toward the fight," but whether he will be content to rest "careless of the war about" is doubtful. The other pieces of verse...
...ghosts that turn out to be pirates, and mysterious uncles that reappear in order to die melodramatic deaths. Two pieces of verse may also be classed among the contributions which are "normal": Mr. Britten's translation of one of Paul Verlaine's lyrics, charming except for the clumsy third stanza; and Mr. Douglas's "Fourteen to One." This, which sounds rather like Kipling in a great hurry, expands with moderate vigor the statement that "the number of deaths in the late Cuban War caused by disease and wounds bore the ratio of fourteen...
...first line, "Land that the lakes have brided." The lingling anapests of "Morituri Salutamus" seem fitter to "Here's a health to King Charles" than to the bleeding and tearful gladiator. "Jealousy" is an aptly turned conceit in four lines; and "Will of the Wisp" has a good second stanza...