Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Other Verse Light humor, delicate fancy, and fine strains of sentiment blended together in flawless form are the requirements sometimes fulfilled by Holmes as a writer of verse. Though such achievement seems but a moment's thought, it is very difficult and rare. Holmes did not try it often. "The Last Leaf," "My Aunt," and "Dorothy Q." are such rare successes. Instead, he wrote broad, rather outrageous satire, such as "The Ballad of the Oysterman," which cleverly lampoons romantic ballads of Longfellow and others. He also struck the deeper notes of his being in poems su...
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