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...LETTER TO ROBERT FROST AND OTHERS, the first book of poems by Robert S. Hillyer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, is now before the public. How poetry lovers will take to Mr. Hillyer's latest work is unpredictable, for in his lambic couplets he has attempted to sound that soothing harmony of compassion tinged with soft, self-childing satire so elusive for the reader to hear yet so pleasant when once heard and held in memory. Whether he succeeds without appearing to descend to the prosaic and the trivial depends entirely on the individual reader...
Most readers today are casual readers, and a casual perusal of Mr. Hillyer's poems will only make one feel that in many passages he has tried to imitate the criticisms of wilder moderns and in a manner faintly reminiscent of Pope...
Addressing Robert Frost, Mr. Hillyer's theme combines a gentle scolding of the state of literature and affairs with his friendship for Frest...
...meet "Kitty, Copey, and Bliss" again in. "A Letter to Charles Townsend Copeland." To countless college men this poem will mean much; to the uninitiated, it may seem slightly nostalgic, and Mr. Hillyer, realizing the fact, chides himself for reminiscing too early in his life...
...Letter to James B. Munn," Mr. Hillyer discusses the conflict within him between the poet and the academic scholar. Also there are letters to Bernard De Vote, Peyton Randolph Campbell, Queen Nefertiti, and the author's son. Only in "A Letter to Queen Nefertiti" does he abandon his pleasantly familiar tone and adopt a more racy and a more lyrical theme...