Word: cowley
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...verse, which has mostly emancipated itself from being libre, the authors are Messrs. S. F. Damon, J. R. Parson, M. Cowley, W. A. Norris, L. K. Garrison, R. H. Snow, A. Putnam, P. R. Doolin, R. S. Hillyer, and W. Willcox, Jr. None of it is bad and some of it is good. With two or three exceptions, it is all facilely academic...
...more than can be said of his "Passion." This too is charming in expression, but it seems forced and artificial in thought. "Passion is a little child," sings Mr. Damon. Some day he may discover the child suddenly and powerfully grown up. Another poem deserving special mention is Mr. Cowley's "Adventurer," which has rugged force and individuality. And finally, a strong ending to the Advocate is Mr. Willcox's "A Slave." That, like Mr. Damon's "Beauty," is a "real poem," well above the usual level of undergraduate publications. These two are the best pieces in the paper...
...meeting of the Advocate board yesterday afternoon, the following men were elected from the Sophomore Class as literary editors of the Advocate: Malcolm Cowley, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Emerson Low, of Detroit, Mich.; Charles Mac-Veagh, Jr., of New York, N. Y.; and James Russell Parsons, of New York...
Most attractive, on the whole, among the sonnets I find Mr. Cowley's except "From the Diary of a Restoration Gentleman," which successfully imprisons within fixed form the loose and rambling idiom of Samuel Pepys. Some change of the second line which would avoid the double use in the rhyme position of the word "approach" would leave a sonnet of memorable power, beauty, and satirical point. Although Mr. MacVeagh's "Sonnet" is strongly reminiscent of Mr. E. A. Robinson's poetry, it is interesting and impressive in and for itself. In Mr. Norris's sonnet on the sonnet...
...Born Criminal that he was made for better things--is well written and well worked out, but perhaps a trifle inconsistently. "New Opportunity in Old Lands," urging Harvard men to reap the harvests in Europe after the war, is deserving of praise, though the matter is bromidic. Mr. Cowley's comments on McFee's "Casuals of the Sea" are keen and to the point; he seems to have a grasp of the essentials of a good review...