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Mutual
Shores "The gravity
of these poems, their responsibility to feeling as to form, never precludes
the possibility of humor, even of hilarity. Sterling sounds a representative
American note, as winning and as unworldly as the Whitman he glimpses,
conscious as he is of his own destination, conscious of the time as well.
As his noble poet says, with characteristic understatement (undersong),
'history's so often questionable.'" |