Poet-Lore

A coastal graveyard opens the dramatic writing in this spring 1900 issue of Poet-Lore, a quarterly edited by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. In Hermann Sudermann's play, Hans Lorbass digs graves while longing to serve his displaced prince again. Around the drama, the magazine gathers verse, essays, reviews and a selective reading course. Contributions by Anne Throop and William Mountain share the issue with discussions of poetry and the place of literature in human life.

Emily G. Hooker's essay on George Meredith examines the tension between circumstance and moral freedom. The passage considers heredity and environment while arguing that character and choice help shape destiny. Other listed articles discuss Ophelia and Browning's later writing, giving the issue a mixture of dramatic, philosophical and critical interests. Readers exploring literary culture around 1900 can see how a magazine brought imaginative work together with sustained arguments about its interpretation.