Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Moon Mist" is a weird and mystic tale in verse which in incomprehensible fantasy would stand alone in a collected volume of Advocate verse. The influence of Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner" is apparent, but unlike that masterpiece the melody and perfection of form are wanting...
...number is taken up by two stories, an essay, and the editorial,- the usual verse being wanting. The first story, "Elsie's Paladin," is a fanciful tale of a boy and a girl, two playmates,-a half-fairy-story in which there is a touch of the weird and fantastic German folk-lore. The first page of the story reminds one of Hawthorne's "Ethan Brand." While the scene of the tale is faid in New England, the names of the characters, the incidents and peculiarities of treatment are entirely German, and bring to the mind's eye the "Black...