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Poets Keep on Publishing Books HARMONIUM - Wallace Stevens - Knopf ($2.00) matches its odd, bright cover. The titles of the poems show the mood, Peter Quince at the Clavier, The Comedian as the Letter C, Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion, Colloquy with a Polish Aunt, "princox, citherns, toucans, gasconade." Intellectual gymnastics, the tight-lipped playfulness of a strange imagination, sonatas for the piccolo-much that is merely sterile grotesquery - occasionally individual beauty, unfashionably arrayed but genuine-half-a-dozen or a dozen poems, firm-fibred, original, distinguished, ensuring for Mr. Stevens a small but positive niche in the imaginary Valhalla...
...with the theory that the poem was originally written in imitation of Euripides. To the large chorus have been assigned two lyrical passages which serve to break up the regular rounds of speeches by the three friends and Job's responses. At the beginning of the play occurs a colloquy between the Lord and The Adversary similar to that between Athene and Poseidon in "The Trojan Women" or to that of Apollo and Death in the "Alkestis," and with this is presented Job's calamity as a forceful prologue to the suffering caused later. In the debate that follows...
...First Colloquy...
...Second Colloquy...
...summarize. At Yale there are twenty-four men from '92 serving as editors of the college papers; of these one has a philosophical oration; three high orations; one an oration; two dissertations; five first disputes; one a second dispute; one a first colloquy; two second colloquies; eight have no appointments. In all sixty-six per cent. of the editors have appointments...