Word: poem
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...poetic, material--idea of image--that, in the past, has had-to be worked up slowly and elaborately into conventional fiction form. Much of the "free verse" seen in the magazines is of this type--some of it quite successful and interesting, in its way, like Mr. Snow's poem, "The Girardian," in the Advocate--while a certain amount of the residual prose itself, like Mr. Low's sketches "Inspiration" and "The Forest," in the same number, tends to approximate the same type...
...verse in college publications, which is more than can be said of his "Passion." This too is charming in expression, but it seems forced and artificial in thought. "Passion is a little child," sings Mr. Damon. Some day he may discover the child suddenly and powerfully grown up. Another poem deserving special mention is Mr. Cowley's "Adventurer," which has rugged force and individuality. And finally, a strong ending to the Advocate is Mr. Willcox's "A Slave." That, like Mr. Damon's "Beauty," is a "real poem," well above the usual level of undergraduate publications. These...
...first prize of $250 and two second prizes of $100 each; in the Greek and Latin group there were two prizes of $50 each. The Francis Boott Prize is one of $100 for the best concerted vocal music composition. The Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize is given for the best poem on a selected subject, and consists of the sum of $100 and a silver medal. The George Arthur Knight Prize of $30 is awarded for the best composition in instrumental music...
...contributions in verse outnumber those in prose. Indeed the issue is a veritable nest of singing-birds. The two poems already mentioned well represent the creditable average of all this verse. One contribution, "The Fiddler," by Cuthbert Wright, rises distinctly above it in a certain sureness and aptness in dealing with a topic not too macabre to lie within the writer's power. Of the two offerings in vers libre, one, the anonymous "Hermes," falls clearly below the average in leaving one uncertain whether it is seriously or humorously modelled upon the accepted pattern of the imagists. Another poem, "Middle...
...poem, Mr. Norris's "Sacrament," shows a fine earnestness of feeling and a style in keeping with the spirit. But on the imaginative side it is not thoroughly wrought out. The figures at the end of the octave for example do not seem to be quite clearly conceived. And is "control" the right word in the eleventh line, or has the author yielded to the exigency of rime...