Abstract

Crickets on the Hearth

The article presents information on several books. Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Merlin" is a book redolent of power, yet not powerful. In this blank-verse narrative where action dissolves in dialogue or monologue, Robinson has sought to add picturesque and dramatic intellectuality to the great medieval story in which romance for once becomes spiritualized. Edward F. Garesché shows himself a poet in "To Rose in Heaven" and possibly in two or three other lyrics dispersed at wide intervals through an amiable and slatternly volume. Edith Willis Linn's poetical work is very curious, as both product and problem. "From Dream to Dream" scarcely deserves mention in these columns. It presents a philosophy at once sugared and watered, a facile optimism and an obsequious benevolence.