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Light Verse is a dying art, contends Harvard's foremost bard. David T. W. McCord '21, Honorary Curator of the Farnsworth and Poetry Rooms in Lamont made the statement after winning the William Rose Benet memorial award of the Poetry Society of America last Saturday for the best poem published in the Saturday Review of Literature...
...first leave in 1935, he wrote White Wings (based on the play by Philip Barry); he managed the musical score for Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster in a summer only because it was short and could be dashed off in a few months. On his second sabbatical, in 1942, he picked a libretto that "wouldn't work" and "missed the boat." He wrote a Quintet and some songs instead. Last week audiences in Columbia's Brander Matthews Hall saw and heard what good, grey Douglas Moore, 57, had cooked up on his third...
Stephen Vincent Benet's short stories, "The Bedside Book of Short Stories," and "Fairy Stories" ("Collections of short stories every writer should...
...things, in all honesty, cannot be ignored. The editors have contrived to fill up this issue with Death. Three out of four stories, two of four poems, tackle the old Reaper--and lose. Anabel Handy's story "Desire of a Fish," and the poems, by Adrienne Rich and Rachel Benet, deal with more lively themes, and come closest to effectiveness...
...poems suffer from the same lack of direction. In verse, of course, a poet can succeed by scratching just one image into your mind. But Signature's poets, possibly excepting Miss Benet, don't even do that. They simply fail to arouse, or to "make the reader care...