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John Draper Evans '20, of Boston, has been awarded the Sargent Prize of $100 for the metrical translation of a Latin poem into English. The poem selected by the committee this year was the 16th ode of Horace's second book.
The other poetical contributions are on more convential lines. Some are marred by metrical defects, and some by vagueness of idea, but all make pleasant reading, and there is occasionally a flash of unusual felicity. One particularly happy feature is the timeliness of most of them.
None of the verse is highly distinguished, though some of it shows considerable technical expertness. Some is purely traditional and imitative in theme, but here and there breaks in, even on these metrical exercises the overmastering absorption of the hour, and gives them a touch of actuality.
"The Georgics and Eclogues of Virgil" (University Press), translated by the late Theodore Chickering Williams '76, with an introduction by George Herbert Palmer '64. A metrical translation of the country poetry of Virgil by the author of a notable translation of Virgil's Aeneid. These pastorals, written for the most...
The 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...