Word: stanzas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...effusion on "The Game." It embodies an idea latent in the minds of many people, that poetry means making similes and the more the better. Mr. Sanger's poem on election which knows no form. It might go on forever, or it might be cut down by three stanzas without great damage; and any one stanza might follow any other. Yet the poem is not without a terse effectiveness...
...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...
...poems, the best are those by Cuthbert Wright and S. L. M. Barlow; the worst is Yvonne, by Arthur Wilson. One stanza will explain why, and perhaps induce collectors to buy the Monthly...
...which presumably was thought to be the excuse for publishing the verse. For in point of fact it is not accurate. Its implications, as far as they can be translated into English, are nothing more nor less than slanders. Take for example the first two lines of the second stanza. Powerful beyond a doubt, they yet convey a totally false impression. To quote from the "Question Box" (page 300) we find the question asked "If the Pope is the successor of Peter, why doesn't he imitate him in simplicity of life? Why ape the pomp and luxury of worldly...
...showing promise and some metrical skill. Here also is Mr. Pulsifer's Garrison Prize Poem, The Conquest of the Air, which would arrest the attention of any reader by the size of its conception and the telling choice of its words. It is awkward in part of the first stanza, but on the whole skilful verse as well as strong...