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Updated: May 21, 2025
This is the conclusion of the happily wedded heroes of Bayard Taylor's A Poet's Journal, and of Coventry Patmore's The Angel in the House; likewise of the poet in J. G. Holland's Kathrina, who excuses his waning inspiration after his marriage: She, being all my world, had left no room For other occupation than my love. ... I had grown enervate In the warm atmosphere which I had breathed.
It is a work of real value a magazine of useful and interesting information, with the authorities cited. Its tone is strongly Protestant, its style clear. Novelist and poet, b. in Massachusetts, helped to found and ed. In poetry he wrote Bitter Sweet , Kathrina, etc. Translator, b. at Chelmsford, and ed. at Camb., was master of the free school at Coventry, where he also practised medicine.
The topic therefore was an unwelcome one, and, with his extraordinary facility for quick changes of thought and feeling, Peter broke the silence with the prosaic question, "Where is the brandy?" "You will get no brandy so early, my boy." "Kathrina!" said Peter in a peculiar tone, while his face began to twitch.
At our literary society we have both enjoyed to the utmost Miss Hanley's exquisite recitation from 'Kathrina. I am sure not a thought of impropriety occurred to either of us. We both enjoyed the familiar talk on the subject for the evening, after the society proper had adjourned.
In Kathrina, though the hero, rebellious on account of the suicide of his demented parents, remains agnostic till almost the end of the poem, this is clearly regarded by Holland as the cause of his incomplete success as a poet, and in the end the hero becomes an irreproachable churchman. At present Vachel Lindsay keeps up the tradition of the poet-revivalist.
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