Word: pandora
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...April Monthly is serious, almost depressingly serious. Almost every article, prose, or verse, holds up to view, or for review, a moral theorem, from W. V. Moody's "Pandora" singing the resistlessness of non-resistance (or something like that) to the editors lashing the lax yet elastic conscience of collegiate youth. The conscience of the Monthly is not lax, nor means it "to while away idleness in pursuit of those things which are not of the spirit...
...cowered, and feared to die... "Gloria Mundi" is Wordsworthian pantheism in minor, cunningly condensed in the expression, evoking thought, yet somehow rather clever than convincing. Lastly "Pandora Sings" exquisitely with perfect modulation, perfect phrasing, perfect key, yet is it carping?--behind the tragic mask I somehow feel the dialectician other than the suffering creature...