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Poet-lore.

Such a noise and din arose in the hall that for a time not a word could be understood. This lasted several minutes; and strange as it may seem, persons whose profession led them to frequent public speech-making—the divines, legislators, and professors—showed the greatest impatience in calling for the experiment; whereas people who seldom tried to deliver a lecture in public — such as artists, architects, soldiers, etc.—evidenced an especial willingness to listen to my friend’s rhapsodical discourse. Nothing was left for him but to satisfy both.

(To be continued.)

Translated from the Bohemian by Josef Jiří Král.

SOME NOTABLE AMERICAN VERSE.^[1]

Much of the poetry of the present era in America might fitly be called gig poetry, so suggestive is it of those respectable members of the community whom Carlyle refers to as having kept gigs. Yet amid this thronging gigmanity of the poetic world, there is an ever-increasing class by which the standard of excellence gradually is being raised.

What, for example, could be more spontaneously lovely than the songs of that fair little lady from the South, Danske Dandridge?

↑ Danske Dandridge, ‘Joy and Other Poems;’ New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1888; ‘Rose Brake,’ 1890. Emily Dickinson, ‘Poems, Second Series;’ Boston, Roberts Bros. 1891. Harriet H. Robinson, ‘The New Pandora: A Drama;’ New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889. F. W. Gunsaulus, ‘Phidias and Other Poems;’ Chicago, A. C. McClurg & Co., 1891. George Parsons Lathrop, ‘Dreams and Days;’ New York, Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1892. Arlo Bates, ‘Told in the Gate;’ Boston, Roberts Bros., 1892. Maurice Thompson, ‘ Poems;’ Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1892. Madison J. Cawein, ‘Days and Dreams;’ New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1891; ‘Moods and Memories,’ 1892. W. T. Mersereau, ‘Vesper Bells and Other Poems;’ New York, Privately Printed. Charles Buxton Going, ‘Summer Fallow;’ New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1892. Charles Henry Lüders, ‘The Dead Nymph and Other Poems;’ New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1892. Susan Marr Spaulding, ‘The Wings of Icarus;’ Boston, Roberts Bros., 1892. Louise Chandler Moulton, ‘Swallow Flights;’ Boston, Roberts Bros., 1892. Richard Hovey, ‘Launcelot and Guinevere;’ New York, United States Book Co., 1891. Amélie Rives, ‘Athelwold;’ New York, Harper’s, February, 1892.

[1] Danske Dandridge, ‘Joy and Other Poems;’ New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1888; ‘Rose Brake,’ 1890. Emily Dickinson, ‘Poems, Second Series;’ Boston, Roberts Bros. 1891. Harriet H. Robinson, ‘The New Pandora: A Drama;’ New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889. F. W. Gunsaulus, ‘Phidias and Other Poems;’ Chicago, A. C. McClurg & Co., 1891. George Parsons Lathrop, ‘Dreams and Days;’ New York, Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1892. Arlo Bates, ‘Told in the Gate;’ Boston, Roberts Bros., 1892. Maurice Thompson, ‘ Poems;’ Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1892. Madison J. Cawein, ‘Days and Dreams;’ New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1891; ‘Moods and Memories,’ 1892. W. T. Mersereau, ‘Vesper Bells and Other Poems;’ New York, Privately Printed. Charles Buxton Going, ‘Summer Fallow;’ New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1892. Charles Henry Lüders, ‘The Dead Nymph and Other Poems;’ New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1892. Susan Marr Spaulding, ‘The Wings of Icarus;’ Boston, Roberts Bros., 1892. Louise Chandler Moulton, ‘Swallow Flights;’ Boston, Roberts Bros., 1892. Richard Hovey, ‘Launcelot and Guinevere;’ New York, United States Book Co., 1891. Amélie Rives, ‘Athelwold;’ New York, Harper’s, February, 1892.

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