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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...respond to toasts: Mr. Bunker to "Is the grind a productive consumer?" Mr. Darling to "The world formula insofar forth" as expressed in the Phi Beta Kappa "as such." Mr. Dodge to the idealism of Marlowe, Massinger and Middleton, contrasted with the subjective idealism of Byron, Browning and Walt Whitman," Mr. Lathrop to "Early rising and its influence on poetry." Mr. Newell to "The modern Puritan." Mr. Pillsbury to "Harvard College as foreshadowed in the Norman Conquest." Mr. Trafford to "The Class of '89," Mr. Warren to "College life, is it happiness or agony?" Mr Wright to "Wage fund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa. | 3/27/1889 | See Source »

...Walt Whitman is seriously ill at his home in Camden, N. J., and grave fears are felt that his strength will not be sufficient for his recovery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 6/15/1888 | See Source »

...rondeaus. They spend their time in a mere elaboration of saying nothing, instead of appealing to the people. William Morris has recently entered upon the true task of the poet. He sees that as life is not ideal there is all the more need and opening for poetry. Walt Whitman has also tried to face this nineteenth century world boldly; and, whatever we may think of his literary style, his spirit is genuine. It is said that the modern spirit is hostile to art and that the tyranny of science drives poetry out of existence. But poetry is based...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Poetry of the Future. | 3/7/1888 | See Source »

...Walt Whitman and his Philosophy" is decidedly, with the exception of the last mentioned, the most interesting essay in the number. It was for some time the fashion to bring up young men either to consider Walt Whitman as a harmless crank or not to consider him at all. Lately, as we all know, public interest has been aroused in the man, and then, naturally, in his poetry. It seems to me that the writer is a little too enthusiastic over his subject; that a poet whose work requires such a deliberate course of study and investigation before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Monthly." | 1/10/1888 | See Source »

...basis for judgment, the college men are Parkman, Warner, Lodge, Fiske, various Adamses, Hale, Higginson, White, Story, Cranch, Scudder, Leland, DeForest, Curtis, Norton, J. F. Clarke, Ripley; Stedman offsets Bryant as coming between the two classes. Of non-college men a larger number may readily be named, Walt, Whitman, Whipple, Trowbridge, Fields, Parton, Stoddard, Bayard Taylor, Eggleston, Harte, Howells, James, Aldrich, Lathrop, Stockton, Piatt, Cable, Crawford, Fawcett, Gilder, Harris, Carleton, Mark Twain, Burroughs. It is possible that some name has been put in one or the other of these lists on the wrong side, but there can be no considerable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Graduates in Literature. | 11/3/1885 | See Source »

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