Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1913 — Poet’s License. [ARTICLE]

Poet’s License.

Robert W. Chambers, the popular novelist, was talking about a New York poet “His poetry is alwayß awkward,” Mr. Chambers said. ‘He drags In words that you can see are there solely for the sake of rhyme. In fact, he reminds me of a Lake Sunapee epitaph. “In a little churchyard overlooking Lake Sunapee a gray, mossy stone bears this inscription; ” ‘As sinks the sun with lengthened shadows, So sank and died the good George Meadows.’ “ ‘N. B. —Deceased’s name was Fields, but Meadows is substituted for the sake of rhyme.’ ”