Word: workmanship
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...verse in the number is remarkably mature in thought and able in workmanship. Four of the poems are sonnets; of these two are a subtly matched pair by Mr. Reniers; the others by Henderson and Mr. Le Farge, treat in different moods the idea of death. Mr. Norris writes "Lines" of epigrammatic brevity and point. "From an Office Window at night" is Mr. Allinson's expression of revolt on the part of the city worker whose imagination carries him far away. Mr. Paulding's verse is tense and irregular; unlike many contemporary writers of tense and irregular verse...
...current issue of the Harvard Illustrated, which has waited until a few days before March before distributing its February edition, contains articles and photographs covering a wide field of subjects. The contents are rich in variety but in many places poor in literary workmanship...
...substance and form and that ambition to produce fancy work displaces ambition to produce works of art. Better poems are written almost daily in Harvard College than those which appear in this number. A similar comment might be made on the prose, which exhibits nearly everywhere insensibility to fine workmanship...
...half of that is Tennyson's. The same Writer's "After a Little While" has in its careful workmanship a great advantage over the unrhymed productions of Mr. B. P. Clark and Mr. Boyden. These gentlemen should realize that free verse is not an easy way out of the bondage of fixed metres, but requires an even finer ear for rhythm, and should compensate for the absence of regularity of account and rhyme by still subtler musical' effects. What they give us is rather vague prose, spoiled by inversions. Mr. Denison's "Sonnet" has a good tenth line spoiled...
...remaining stories are simpler and more sincere. Despite rather cruder workmanship, Mr. Blaine produces an effective climax with a very timely setting. "The Story of Old Panama" is highly colored, remote, and romantic...