Word: bacchus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poet should most assuredly go into the next collected volume of Advocate verse. One might quarrel with Mr. Witter Bynner ('02) for disturbing buried desires; for no sooner has the Editorial with Common Sense buried King Spirits than along come most enchanting pictures of Cantors, with numberless grapes and Bacchus with "viney patterns of the veining of his nose." After that the Freudian wish is no more and the sole remaining bottle "though it doubles me rheumatic" is drained to Socrates! In striving for a sustained note Mr. Norris succeeds rather better than do Mr. Auslander and Mr. Cole, though...