Document Type
Article
Department/Program
English
Journal Title
William & Mary Magazine
Pub Date
Winter 1994
Publisher
William & Mary
Place of Publication
Williamsburg, VA
Volume
61
Issue
5
First Page
60
Abstract
"If you're a poet compelled to write a poem for a particular occasion, your muse might well freeze up. Almost a century ago, for example, at Charter Day, 1897, Thomas W. Higginson hailed the College in a poem that included a pleasing tribute (couched in a clever metaphor) from Harvard to William & Mary as "Thou earliest College of our native land/ The first conceived, yet not the earliest born!" But Higginson's poem is flaccid, done in by the bombast characteristic of the genre..."
Recommended Citation
Meyers, Terry L., Comments on Amy Clampitt’s 'Matoaka' (1994). William & Mary Magazine, 61(5), 60-61.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/aspubs/959
