+ + Outlook. 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 40w.
Stickney, (Joseph) Trumbull. Poems. *$1.50. Houghton.
A posthumous volume of verse which includes “all of Stickney’s work that is for any reason valuable.” There are six groups as follows: Dramatic verses, Fragments of a drama on the life of Emperor Julian, Later lyrics, A dramatic scene, Juvenilia, and Fragments.
“Promise rather than fulfillment is a mark of this work as a whole.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – Dial. 40: 125. F. 16, ’06. 370w.
“The book is edited with a wealth of piety and a rather conspicuous poverty of taste. Had he lived and been able to attain to a mastery of form and of syntax, he would undoubtedly have been a poet to reckon with.”
– Nation. 81: 507. D. 21, ’05. 250w.
“We owe to the excellent judgment of his editors, no doubt that nothing commonplace or unworthy has crept into this posthumous book of his verse.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 420w. R. of Rs. 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 40w.