Word: hillyer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have seen in a single issue of any other American publication. The Sapphices of Mr. Cummings are very fine poetry: the thought is straightforward and clear, the wording is singularly euphonious--as in a Greek meter it should be--and the rhythm expresses, while restraining, mature emotion. Mr. Hillyer's second sonnet on Antinous is richly conceived and adequately expressed; the reading of it gives me intense pleasure, in particular the remarkable sestet with the "Imperial hosts upon disconsolate seas." "The Tree of Stars" and "A Renaissance Picture" by Mr. Poore are both of them charming poems. Perhaps the former...
...poems Mr. Hillyer, whose verse always commands respect, contributes "Revelation" and a sonnet. The former is not quite successful in harmonizing its words or its figures of speech; the latter, like many sonnets by the same author, is larger in conception and in diction than the sonnets of most undergraduates. Mr. Nelson's "Harbor Lights," though a little rough, is vigorous and contains one fine stanza. Mr. Rogers's "Oh Wonderful Wind of Desire" begins well and is spirited throughout, but in the last two stanzas seems not quite at home with its form. "Transition," by Mr. Benshimol, lacks...
...poetry excells. Hillyer's "Retrospect" indubitably sings,--though in a well-worn tone; Dos Passos admirably conveys the spirit of the prairies; and Nelson's "Madam" strikes an original vital poetic note. His readers, however, should not turn the page. The remaining verse is more conventional. Hillyer's first sonnet too clearly recalls Drayton; his second, Donne: they constitute studies rather than self-expression. The anonymous run on sonnet appears at line fourteen to have missed connections. Howe's sapphics, on the other hand, are metrical and in phrasing delightful though artificial...
...Remembrance" imbues us with Mr. Hillyer's admirably expressed Iyric spirit of happiness...
There are five poems in this issue, all of them above the usual ideal of space fillers. Mr. Hillyer contributes two; a "Song" and a "Threnos." The "Song" is an exquisite bit--rhymeless, but using the same terminating words for each stanza. The "Threnos" is a sudden cynical outburst of still more interesting form; the lines of the first stanza become successively the refrains of the following stanzas. Mr. Cummings contributes a "Ballade of Soul," a true ballade--of a more complicated type, however, than generally seen. Yet Mr. Cummings, for all the limited number of rhymes, makes his poem...