Word: cowley
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Paulding, is clearly the best. It shows, contrary to an opinion of happily decreasing prevalence, that the new free-verse form and genuine poetic expression are not incomparable. The poem possesses a depth of thought and feeling coupled with a delicacy of expression which is less noticeable in Mr. Cowley's "To a Chance Acquaintance." The sonnet by Mr. Rickaby is buoyant in tone and complete in execution. "The Arthropoda," by Mr. Rogers, represents a mingling of "cold blue science with a puikish dream divine" which has at least the merit of novelty. It dwells on the common origin...
...wife, Mrs. Ward P. Shattuck. Klara, their daughter, Miss Elsa Warnke Arnold Reimann, architect, F. S. Cawley '10 Hugo Berger, life-insurance agent, C. G. Cook 3G Pieper, alderman, J. L. Mosle '20 Ballinger, alderman, R. P. Berie '20 Karner, alderman, J. R. Lauer '20 Lehmann, alderman, M. Cowley '19 Blechschmidt, alderman, C. A. Rome '17 Moll, physician, W. Silz '17 Hampel, messenger, W. J. Margreve '19 Frau Balder, Miss Gabriele Veit Pauline, maid at Birkenstock's, Miss Lina Berle Karoline, maid at Sauerbrei's, Miss Anna Margreve...
Stadtverordnete, etc., will be taken by J. L. Mosle '20, R. M. Lovett '18, J. R. Lauer '20, M. Cowley '19, I. K. Moyse '17 and R. P. Berle...
...Cowley's lines "To a Girl I Dislike" furnish an admirable example of the proper use of vers libre, and all in all the best in the number. In the light of the title the whole might be more subtly forceful without the last two lines, for they are distinctly anticlimatic. Mr. Garrison's venture into formless verse is likewise successful, but the other two representatives of this school were better undone...
...which is like "the changing pastel tones" of the "warm amber of a Virginia sunset"--"soft, delicate, and passionless." And there is the usual amount of conventionally correct verse, with one piece, "Escaped," by Mr. W. A. Norris, that is more individual and distinguished than the rest. Even Mr. Cowley's vers libre is conventional according to the standards of "Spoon River...