Western Windows, and Other Poems
By . New York : Hurd and Houghton.
WHOEVER loves refined sentiment and subtle expression, with so much originality in thought and treatment as rarely appears in young poets of this time, will enjoy Mr. Piatt’s poems, which are here collected from several previous volumes. We have spoken of them before, and we can now only testify our pleasure in recurring to them. One is always sensible of singular freshness and purity in them,—some novel grace of diction, some touch of tender feeling or airy fantasy. It is not too much to say—though it is saying a good deal— that it is worth while to read all the poems in the book ; they all represent real poetic impulses, and have a pensive and delicate charm which is entirely their own.