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...intelligent conversation, the Vagabond yesterday left a petition at University Hall to have them abolished. It is time that something of the sort is done. These biannual excitations inducing a kind of subsidiary froth are naturally abhorrent to the epicure of food and talk. Dishonoring the tolerant muse of wisdom with such mental debauchery can be endured in silence; but the gibberings of the Bereaved One of Mt. Auburn St. should not be allowed to interfere with digestion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/29/1931 | See Source »

...poets have become bestsellers, but Stephen Vincent Benet turned the trick when he wrote John Brown's Body (1928). His is a Muse of a straightforward, dramatic kind, at her best in balladish vein. Into this book Poet Benet has collected his favorites from three earlier, out-of-print volumes and has added some new ones. Only a Benet enthusiast would call this book first-class, but almost anyone would grant its readability, its occasional bursts of exciting phrases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Balladeer | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...something tremendously courageous, almost sadistically so, in this attitude. It is probable, with him, that reality itself is an escape from something he fears more--sentiment, romance, mysticism... "Mencken never describes anything, he tears it to pieces and throws it in your face... His aesthetic is Good Workmanship. His Muse is Technique...

Author: By H. B., | Title: De Casseres Explodes The Bernard Shaw Myth | 10/30/1930 | See Source »

Blunden is often classed as of the genus pastoral: his descriptions of English countryside have been likened to Wordsworth. He is a meticulous observer of the outdoors, and couches his observations in many a good old country term. In Near and Far his Muse wanders to Japan and through the War, but she remains, in spite of all temptations, always an English Muse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gentle Poet | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

Once again a slightly ever-enthusiastic pursuit of the Muse seems to have brought down Jovian thunder upon the unprotected head of Lampy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRE! FIRE! | 5/27/1930 | See Source »

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