Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1899 — Idael Makeever, Poetess. [ARTICLE]

Idael Makeever, Poetess.

Mrs. Idael Makeever wife of our farmer Milton M. Makeever, of Stromßbnrg Neb., is now at tbe home of her parents, at Koute, Porter County completing a second volume of poetry for publication. She has been there since attending tbe Western Writers Association, at Winona, at which as always she was greatly honored having been three times on the program. Her former book “Golden Rod and Dialect Poems.” is receiving frequent favorable mention in tbe city papers. Most of the Chicago papers have already favorably reviewed the book and in todays issue of the Times Herald presents a two column portrait, together with a notice of her book tbe latter of whiob is here copied: From the West comes another poet, who also writes mnch, in dialect. This time our author is a fair young woman, a Nebraskan, and she entities her volume “Golden Rod and Dialect Poems.” Idael Makeover’s work is distinguished by unmistakable poetic feeling and by an unusual sense «f music and rhythm. Happily for her future hopes, she is more fortunate m pure English than in socalled dialect, which, after all is generally a delusion and a snare. We cannot deny the inspiration of the of such lines as these: