Word: lao
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, in his "Extracts from the Poetry of Chi Lao", Mr. Whitman challenges achievement. These are Whit manifestly not Chinese: but they are the stuff of poetry. Mr. R. C. Rogers in his "Sonnet" fingers an incoherent loveliness. The octave speaks of "chords that bind", an unfortunate ambiguity; the sestet hovers momentaly on the threshold of beauty; but the poem as a whole is tenuous and inarticulate. The "Winter Night's Spell" of Mr. Best plucks an old lute. We cannot help wishing there were more lines like these...