Word: stanzas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...poems none stand out except the one by C. P. A., the second stanza of which would be especially charming were it not for the "paradisal snow." Mr. Gray's "Utopia" is not an improvement on Shakspere. The stories are rather slight sketches than stories. "His Valley" by H. B. Wehle is not effective because the one character lacks the terse expression that would make his story live. The descriptions--not by the old prospector--are overdrawn. The reader balks a little at the "clear scarlet sky" as other readers protested at Coleridge's sky with its "peculiar tint...
...night-ride with a corpse which does not begin until the middle and stops long before the end. Otherwise it is up to the usual standard. The poem called "The Grain Elevators at Duluth" by H. B. Sheahan '09 is distinguished mainly by the inaptitude of the last stanza and the vision of wheatmills that both "loom" and are "outlined...