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...contributed often to the Advocate since leaving Harvard; and his poems have sometimes been the only saving grace of otherwise subnormal issues. But this month's Advocate is so consistently excellent that it would rate a whole row of stars even without Harry's magnificent "Ode For Richard Eberhart...
...short story by Nelson Gidding at his newest best, Billy Abraham's poignant "Wind In Dry Grass" and his "Concertino," and Bowden Broadwater's "Jewelled Channing Sisters" are worthy companions to Harry Brown's masterpiece. But "The Ode For Richard Eberhart" is the outstanding writing in the issue...
Brown speaks as a poet to another poet, Eberhart, and the subject is the common goal of the two--to attain universality of sympathy and expression. The goal is one which no poet has attained--there is a lingering but powerful hint in the poem's background of the author's realization that he may be doomed to failure in seeking it. But the poem is more an exhortation to achievement, in which the author incites himself and another to accomplish what previous poets have failed...
...HANGMAN'S WHIP-Mignon G. Eberhart-Doubleday Doran ($2). Carefully plotted around the Abbott family-Aunt Ludmilla, who is being arsenicked; Cousin Search (a girl), and Diana. Principal crime: the hanging of a mean woman who won't divorce the man Search wants to marry. Motive: money...
Contributing to the Symposium are: Conrad Aiken '11 (who was an editor of the Advocate at the same time as Eliot); Howard Baker, poet and Instructor in English; Richard Eberhart, poet and teacher of English at St. Mark's School, South borough; Robert T.S. Lowe '11; Archibald MacLeish, Curator of the Nieman Collection; Merrill Moore, sonneteer and Associate in Psychiatry; George Marion O'Donell, Frederick Prokosch, Wallace Stevens, Allen Tate, William Carlos Williams, and Robert Penn Warren, all prominent contemporary writers...