Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opinions about verse vary; but to me for one, Mr. Lincoln's "Tryst" is the most satisfactory poem in the magazine. I don't know precisely what it means, but I like its swing, its vigor, its easy rhymes, and in fact everything about it except the use of the word "unshaven", which lends an uncouth effect to an otherwise pisturesque description. "The Stockbridge Elms" by Mr. Rogers is charming, and I take it that the strange punctuation in the reviewer's copy is not Mr. Rogers' but the printer's. (One of the rewards of the reviewer...
...Auslander's poem contains some brilliant lines, although to borrow the language of golf he is inclined to press. The rest of the poems are ably done. The editorials are uneven; Mr. Whitman's essay on snobs is pleasant and ingenious; the sketches are amusing...
...best of the poetry is in the first stanza of Mr. Morrison's unnamed poem and Mr. Behn's "Mid-Day". Mr. Morrison's truly poetic thought is spent in his first stanza, whereas "Mid-Day" is more "consistent. "To Teon Apostate" has rhetorical possibilities with more of a philosophical message than the rest. "I Spent a Day in Dreamland" by A. M. Dobson is a pretty musical rhyme with just a little wastefulness at the end. It is pleasant to read but leaves no splendorous impression. The "Rondeau" and "Vacation Rain" by a single author are pessimistic bits, flung...
Remember in the first place that this is not an anthology of modern poetry, so called, or of recent Poetry in general. It is not meant to be, if we may believe the statement on the cover that Mrs. Richards "has gathered about two hundred poems from the foremost poets of today, making her selection not only on the ground of literary excellence, but also for the message of joy, faith and promise that each poem carries." Probably there is a place for this sort of thing; we are acquainted with several middling-to-elderly ladies to whom...
...soloist this evening will be Mr. Felix Fox, planist. Single tickets for the concert may be obtained today at Kent's University Bookstore. The program arranged for the concert is as follows. Fifth Symphony in E minor Tschaikowsky Beethoven Concerto in G major, For Pianoforte 'and Orchestra. Tone Poem "Tod and Verklarung Strauss