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...communication mean? Not much I think, except your own sense of power-for one issue-over persons whom you obviously don't understand nor even recognize. Jeffers is a vasty poetaster, William Carlos Williams is a poetaster, Prokosch is an accomplished poetaster, Taggard is empty, nondescript, Donald Davidson is poeticulous, Fearing is a poeticule, say you. Where is your badge for all this authority? Probably it's a book by I. A. Richards or perhaps the history of the French Academy...
Recently appointed by Dennett and Richard H. Sullivan '39, President of the Student Council, to a committee to select new books for the Stillman Infirmary library were Ellsworth Grant '39, chairman, Frederick E. Pamp '39, and Frank P. Davidson '39. The group will have a $100 appropriation...
...Donald Davidson, 45, is a Tennessean, professor of English at Tennessee's Vanderbilt University, a leading member of the Southern agrarians (Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, et al.). Like the rest of those resolute, nostalgic patriots, he believes that the thread of U. S. destiny was lost somewhere in the tangle of the Civil War. As citizens the agrarians think they can tie that thread into modern life, as poets they feel that the thread has gone for good. In Lee in the Mountains (Houghton Mifflin, $2), a book of short narrative poems, Davidson's heroes are dead...
Despite Donald Davidson's sincerity and competence, his attempts to revive a live present by hypodermic injections of a dead past are poeticulous...
...Editor of the magazine, John I. B. McCulloch, is a graduate student hero in the field of Inter-American relations, and the Managing Editor, Frank P. Davidson '38, was founder and first president of the "Harvard Guardian...