Word: amber
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Galsworthy's Justice' as a whole falls below the dramatic level of the 'Eldest Son.'" There is a conventionally humorous consideration of that time-honored subject, "Cambridge Weather." There is a conventional undergraduate story, "The Flame," the heroine of which is like "the changing pastel tones" of the "warm amber of a Virginia sunset"--"soft, delicate, and passionless." And there is the usual amount of conventionally correct verse, with one piece, "Escaped," by Mr. W. A. Norris, that is more individual and distinguished than the rest. Even Mr. Cowley's vers libre is conventional according to the standards of "Spoon...
...Leffingwell is frankly imitative, but he chooses an admirable model--J. M. Vetteredia. Some of his descriptions seem extravagant--"amber arms," for instance--but on the whole his language and his metre are sound, and one feels that he has more of "the makings" than some of his more ambitious fellow-bards. Mr. Realers announces, perhaps prematurely, that his heart grows cold; his effort rouses a suspicion that he might glow more warmly in some more suitable medium than he has chosen here...