Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are five poems in this issue, all of them above the usual ideal of space fillers. Mr. Hillyer contributes two; a "Song" and a "Threnos." The "Song" is an exquisite bit--rhymeless, but using the same terminating words for each stanza. The "Threnos" is a sudden cynical outburst of still more interesting form; the lines of the first stanza become successively the refrains of the following stanzas. Mr. Cummings contributes a "Ballade of Soul," a true ballade--of a more complicated type, however, than generally seen. Yet Mr. Cummings, for all the limited number of rhymes, makes his poem...
...disciplined, it might have been easier to share his vision. Mr. Leffingwell's two poems, especially "Mt. Auburn at Dawn," show a lyric talent reminiscent of Noyes. But the best poem, and the best piece in this issue, is "Fog in the City" by Mr. B. P. Clark--a bit of "free verse" by a real poet...
...College comment" is interesting as usual but it could be much more comprehensive and could be made an even more valuable department. The photographs are not up to the reading matter, but the whole number is creditable even if it smells a bit of gunpowder. It might have been printed at Essen...
...term "Harvard farmers" may at first sound a bit unusual; but we venture to hope that the founders will not squeamishly label the association "Harvard agriculturalists" or "Harvard husbandmen...
...more for "elegance than force." "When the Suspenders Came Off," a seasonal sketch, by Mr. Ben Sion Trynin, is the largest piece of fiction in this Monthly. It has the makings of a good story, but it is rather rough in workmanship and not always of crystal clearness. The bit of verse following, "From a Warm Room," one is uncertain whether to take seriously or humorously. After this come the "Glimpses," of Paris and of Boston respectively. The former--"Paris: Under a Bridge"--is very good description, except that the writer, with that serene disregard of natural fact which appears...