Word: dos
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...verse is less distinguished; some of it, in fact, is bad. The most finished poem of the seven is Mr. Mitchell's sonnet; the most effective. Mr. Dos Passos' "Incarnation," an experiment in a form which allows itself something of the flexibility of "vers libre" yet retains rhyme and metre. Mr. Allinson's "Renaissance," a sonnet replete with mythological allusions of surprisingly cosmopolitan range, must have been written of some other April than the month we have just survived...
...Dos Passos has an interesting impression of a meeting of the Salvation Army on a street corner. Even with the glorious liberty which his verse allows, must he resort to such rhymes as "tune" and "importune"? A short, vivid tale by Mr. H. S. Rogers, however, tells an old story and tells it well. Anonymity shields the author of "The Young Faun," who depicts not merely an afternoon, but several of the last mornings and evenings of the wild creature's life. "Shoes of Unity" is the name Mr. Littell gives his composition which, in spite of some harsh transpositions...
...undergraduate man, and challenges, "Is this impersonal and terrifying attitude necessary? Would not a little sympathy and human feeling show more clearly a student's ability?" A. K. McC. reviews "The World Decision" by Robert Herrick, but the secretary prefaces the review with a note of warning. What Mr. Dos Passos says constitutes a sound reply to his fellow-editor, Mr. McComb, on a preceding page. A. K. McC., whom we suspect to be this very Mr. McComb, even says, combatting the work of Mr. Herrick, "We know that trade is continuing between Italy and Germany. Let it continue...
...short editorial on the late General Huerta to his longer article. Brief, bitter, and to the point, it reveals, like so much of the writer's other work, a personality which it were far better to agree with comfortably than combat. The only story in the issue--Mr. Dos Passos' "Cardinal's Grapes"--is a light trifle as the author intends it to be. If the latter added more humor to his other gifts,--the reaction to color, feeling for childhood, and sense of atmosphere,--he would be a better artist...
...will be new to most readers. The second literary essay, Mr. Littell's "Imagines and Gargoyles," seems the work of a writer who has not grown up no his vocabulary, but who has things to say and may discipline himself into saying them well. Of the two stories, Mr. Dos Passos's "Pot of Tulips" contains skilful description and an inimitable heroin. Mr. Whittlesey's "Best Laid Schemes" is lively, humorous, and endowed with a "double back action" in its final surprise. "The Poet and the Porcupine" by Mr. Rogers is a well-told fable, the moral of which...