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Although the entire magazine is interesting, the verse impresses me as being better than the prose. Dudley Fitts Jr. contributes a joyful "Ode to Anne", "who demanded a piece in the jazzy measure." Mr. Fitts possesses feeling for metrical movement, and a blessed sense of the ridiculous. In "An Invective Against Poets", Merle Colby, with pleasant banter, calls upon the rhymers to tell where they have ever seen this beauty about which they sing in sweetened notes. Pertinex writes in his sonnets about "Inspiration"; Whitney Cromwell writes with a pleasant absence of gravity about "Reading an Obituary". George P. Ludlam...
Among the four prizes for dissertations due today is the Dante Prize of $100, offered for an essay on a prescribed subject on Dante. A second is the Sargent Prize of $100 for the best metrical translation of the sixteenth ode of the third book of Horace. The last two are the Bennett and Summer Prizes of $100 each for dissertations on American governmental policy and Universal Peace respectively...
...poetry; it has a catchy swing to it and contains a great deal of meaty matter. The religion of the chief Romantic poets is expressed here in a nutshell, surely much better than they themselves could ever have done. How much more concise it is, too, than the "Ode to a Grecian Urn." Such an opinion, no doubt, might be expressed by some readers quite frankly and honestly--so seriously, in fact, that a writer in the Atlantic Monthly feels forced to suggest that every student be prescribed a course in the "Appreciation of Literature" an English...
...must not overlook the poets. The author of the "Ode On the Intimations", etc.--what did he read in his off moments for inspiration? Alas, we guessed wrong. Wordsworth's own name is neatly penned on the title page of "Memoirs of the Most Material Transactions in England for the Last Hundred Years." We could expect C. Lamb, who was a poet after all, to read Euripides, and Milton is always Milton except when he writes in the guest book of an Italian nobleman: "if virtue feebly were, etc., Joannes Miltonius...
Marshall Ayres Best '23 of Evanston, Ill., won the Sargent Prize for the best metrical translation of the twenty-second ode of the first book of Horace...