Word: sonnetting
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Dates: during 1911-1911
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...outer nature, but also for its pleasant melody of rhyme. Mr. Gray's college story, "The Firing Line," is an amiable trifle. It is to be regretted that in it the dialogue dies away into narrative at exactly the spot where it should be most interesting., Mr. Thwing's sonnet to the memory of Mr. Higginson, worthily pays a brave man, "a brave man's meed...
...them to success. The main leader then is sentimental, as the rebuttal points out, but there is behind the sentimentality the temper that is like to lead to the juster common-sense of the coming generations. Kindred in spirit to these articles are two translations, one of a Spanish sonnet, another of an address by Anatole France to French students. This address is a plea for vision--"Agitate and dream; and above all, oh, above all do not be too rational"; a plea for tolerance--"Be not fanatic, even with the fanaticism of acquired truth, which may react against grander...