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...poetry . . ." Alice said indignantly. "Full of sound and alliteration, signifying nothing. Just like those Kafka-Poe horror bits by Sweeney. Playing with words, and getting some slight effect once in a while, as in Sweeney's third and fourth pieces. But so what?" The March Hare signed, "You're complaining because they aren't yet the Eliots they're trying to be. Give them a little time. They know the forms and the words pretty well, but they don't have much to write about. They don't know much, haven't met much. They're just marking time. Maybe...
...just a 20-minute subway ride from Manhattan. It was a hand-to-mouth existence. Mrs. Bloom was ill and, because of British monetary regulations, could get little financial help from England. Claire spent her time singing "terribly sad songs," copying out poems from memory (one of her favorites: Poe's ". . . All that we see or seem, Is but a dream within a dream . . ."), or curled up reading her red-leather volume of Shakespeare. She also went to school, but did badly in such practical subjects as arithmetic. In 1943, Claire and her mother returned to London. Says Claire...
...French believe in making schoolchildren work hard. At nine, a French child is already being stuffed with Chateaubriand and Rousseau; he parses sentences from Hugo and learns all about the Edict of Nantes. At 14, he must begin to dip (in English) into the works of Swift and Poe. By the time he gets to his "baccalaureat" exam, he must know his Tacitus and answer such questions as "What did P. A. Touchard mean when he said of Montaigne: 'Before everything and despite everything, Montaigne is alive...
Hand to the plow, which won the first prize, boasts a very clear, almost slick style. This macabre story of a subtle murder, emblemished with crisp dialogue and painstaking detail, seems like a strange marriage of Edgar Allen Poe and Hamlin Garlin. Miss Leonard has constructed her slice of horror carefully and correctly, slipping the stilleto in exactly the right place at the right time. Although this is a cool, professional job, it does not have the strength of personal involvement that the Stewart story...
There's nothing wrong with imagination. Most great writers have delved into fantasy at one time or another. Verne, Wells, Poe and others are revered figures. Yet people scoff at the new stories in the genre...