reception of his innovations in verse that he has numerous parodists, but no imitators. The tendency among our younger poets is not toward the abandonment of rhyme and meter, but toward the introduction of new stanza forms and an increasing carefulness and finish in the _technique_ of their art. It is observable, too, that in his most inspired passages Whitman reverts to the old forms of verse; to blank verse, for example, in the _Man-of-War-Bird_: "Thou who hast slept all night upon the storm, Waking renewed on thy prodigious pinions," etc.; and elsewhere not infrequently to dactylic hexameters and pentameters: "Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river! . . . Far-swooping, elbowed earth! rich, apple-blossomed earth." Indeed, Whitman's most popular poem, _My Captain_, written after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, differs little in form from ordinary verse, as a stanza of it will show: "My captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won. Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells! But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck, my captain lies Fallen, cold and dead." This is from _Drum Taps_, a volume of poems of the civil war. Whitman has also written prose having much the same quality as his poetry: _Democratic Vistas_, _Memoranda of the Civil War_, and, more recently, _Specimen Days_. His residence of late years has been at Camden, New Jersey, where a centennial edition of his writings was published in 1876. 1. William Cullen Bryant. _Thanatopsis_. _To a Water-fowl_. _Green River_. _Hymn to the North Star_. _A Forest Hymn_. "_O Fairest of the Rural Maids_." _June_. _The Death of the Flowers_. _The Evening Wind_. _The Battle-Field_. _The Planting of the Apple-tree_. _The Flood of Years_. 2. John Greenleaf Whittier. _Cassandra Southwick_. _The New Wife and the Old_. _The Virginia Slave Mother_. _Randolph of Roanoke_. _Barclay of Ury_. _The Witch of Wenham_. _Skipper Ireson's Ride_. _Marguerite_. _Maud Muller_. _Telling the Bees_. _My Playmate_. _Barbara Frietchie_. _Ichabod_. _Laus Deo_. _Snow-Bound_. 3. Edgar Allan Poe. _The Raven_. _The Bells_. _Israfel_. _Ulalume_. _To Helen_. _The City in the Sea_. _Annabel Lee_. _To One in Paradise_. _The Sleeper_. _The Valley of Unrest_. _The Fall of the House of Usher_. _Ligeia_. _William Wilson_. _The Cask of Amontillado_. _The Assignation_. _The Masque of the Red Death_. _Narrative of A. Gordon Pym_. 4. N. P. Willis. _Select Prose Writings_. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1886. 5. Mrs. H. B. Stowe. _Uncle Tom's Cabin_. _Oldtown Folks_. 6. W. G. Simms, _The Partisan_. _The Yemassee_.