Word: stanzas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...mixed novelties, we cannot accept as genuine his prayer for "the feathered thrill of birds." Mr. La Farge's "To My Goddess" exhibits feeling for the music of verse and contains pretty details. Unhappily the reviewer's copy omits the last line of the second and last stanza, and reads,--"Then lovelier than the hermit-thrush's call, Than whip-poor-will's insistent threnody, Christopher La Farge '20" which, I am sure, was not the poet's intention...
...Ballad of the Bounding Billows" is a clever things, too. Its anonymous author imposed a racking task on himself in electing to write his rhymes in their jagged form, but he won out in the last stanza...
Then comes "New Moon." We suggest to the editors of future anthologies that the title of this immortal lyric be altered to "Diana Hermaphrodite," that the sweet anonymous singer may receive his due reward for it--ing the moon in one stanza and her--ing the poor thing in the next...
...mood, he might even suggest Ralph Hodgson, for he has at times a distinct trace of Hodgson's mystical vision. But the closest resemblance of all, in this particular poem, is to James Stephens, of whom there is a very good reminder in the touch, in the last stanza, about the "lone...
...quality. Mr. Hillyer's though not his best, is the best in the number. His lines "To a Portrait of Marguerite de Normandie" are in part quite worthy of him; but the second half of the poem is inferior to the first. His "After Parting," which in its first stanza is suggestive of Donne, is pleasing throughout; but, like the first poem, it is better in the first half than in the second. His "Recompense" expresses an old idea with much beauty, and would be satisfying if he had stopped after two stanzas, omitting the final quartrain. Mr. Whittlesey...