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...Winthrop House Lion Rampant has just made its first appearance in nearly ten months, and the quality of the material in the magazine makes one wonder what the editors have been doing all that time...
Seven poems appear in the Lion Rampant, three by Bayard Chandler, a graduate student who will have a book of poetry published this fall. Chandler's writing is execrable; his use of imagery would provide budding poets with an excellent catalogue of flagrant errors to avoid. "In the Fall" abounds with trite images and mixed metaphors...
...most ambitions poem in the Lion Rampant is Kevin Lewis' "March, Returned From Home," which describes the thoughts and recollections of a college student who is walking through a wooded area, the scene of many childhood adventures. Lewis' murky style makes it difficult for the reader to have any sort of response to the poem without "studying...
...Common Mistake." The story meanders from a description of a river, to a poker game, to a quarrel between two men over money, to violence over a pool game. Structurally, "Scratch" is a terrible story. And yet, Goodwin probably has more writing talent than any other contributor to the Lion Rampant. His story begins, The water was named in derision by a generation of luckless farmers: Burnt Crop Creek, because they had watched the stalks of cotton and even of corn wither in the sun, and heard the heavy winds rattle through the hone dry fields like seeds ticking...
...realistically expect perfection from undergraduate writers. The technical side of writing can be learned, but Goodwin has the one necessary endowment of a developing author--a facility with words, an entertaining style. It is the lack of this attribute which makes the rest of the Lion Rampant a failure...