Word: grubbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know how large a part the study of parody plays in the Harvard purview of literature; therefore I cannot tell what is a fair standard by which to judge the Harvard Advocate's April 1st number with its "Mirrors of Grub Street", to which anonymous writers, presumably chiefly undergraduates, contribute a score or more of imitations of well-known writers. I assume it would be neither gracious nor fair, for have I any disposition, to apply rigid tests to an ensemble so good-especially when the whole business is a labor of love and enthusiasm, done...
...from which the book takes its name and twenty-five lyrics of amazing craftsmanship and power. It is called, unnecessarily. "Priapus and the Pool" Uncouth., essentially Roman divinity, Priapus seems of late to have gained many followers far afield both in literature and music. But those who grub in books for the unwholesome or the obscene (Vice Commissioners take note!) will be deeply disappointed by the sheer beauty of these poems. The title is inappropriate. The poems themselves are as lovely as any love-lyrics I know. Their cadences fall like sudden, cooling rain and bring "another April...