DEIRDRÈ,

"Deirdre' is a remarkable poem, written in ten-syllable lines, with almost perfect ease of versification. ... The author has an enthusiastic and delicate love of nature in all her moods. His battle scenes are all set in glowing landscapes; he sings the glories of the earth and of the skies, as well as the achievements of his heroes; he makes you feel the weather and the landscape, the sharpness of late autumn, the life and sweetness of spring. The fault of

the poem is an excess of its beauties (?)." — Boston Daily Advertiser.

"Such is the story of Deirdrè; a story of extraordinary power and pathos, and one which, though dealing with remote times and barbarous characters, awakens a strong sympathy in the breast of the reader. Some of the passages of the poem are absolutely Homeric, particularly the descriptions of the battles; while there are here and there subtle touches of nature, all the more potent because of their savage setting. Altogether it is the poem of this day and generation, and worthy a place beside the best work of the best living poets of England or America.' Boston Transcript.

"One's first thought on reading the last line of this poem is of its absolute integrity of excellence. Not a faulty line mars its expansive beauty; not a commonplace sentiment degrades it. We have never read a poem whose perfection is so steadfastly sustained; from the first line to the last there is no descent from the original nobility of thought and style. . . Its atmosphere is strangely high and healthful. Honor rules almost every act in the eventful drama. The most exigent sense of duty seems to animate every person in the poem; and the episode of their deaths illustrates the noblest qualities of human nature. Over the whole sky of his poem there broods an atmosphere of the most exquisite refinement. But words cannot do justice to the grandeur and beauty of 'Deirdrè;' it is the poem of the century." Literary World.

"Thus 'Deirdrè' comes forth a grand epic, a poem of which America can be proud as the country from which it issues, and all other reading lands glad and satisfied. There is in it the grandeur and magnificence of the Greek of the Iliad and Odyssey; the beauty and grace, the rich imagery of the Æneid, and the rythmic flow of Dante's writings. The power of the poem is not spasmodic, the genius of the writer is not fitful, and the beauty of the verse is nowhere hampered by artifice or lessened by signs of relapsing from the highest standard. On the contrary, steadily, firmly, grandly the story progresses, with a rich fertility of poetic skill and rare picturing, to its closing page. The poem is destined to live and rank among modern classics."- Boston Traveller.

"Deirdre' would have attracted attention without the adjunct of mystery (No Name?). It is a narrative poem, original in its material, boldly conceived, and written with sufficient poetic skill and feeling to separate it wholly from the crowd of crude and ambitious attempts which are constantly issuing from the press."- New York Tribune.

"The reader easily discovers that it is a poem of very rare quality, a great poem, we may say, without misusing the adjective; but precisely how great it is, precisely how it compares with other works of a like kind, it is not easy to determine while the glamour of a first reading is upon us. For the present it is enough that we shall read it and enjoy it, recognizing its richness in all that makes poetry good, and learning to know its spirit and its significance." — New York Evening Post.

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