Word: poet
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Sessions '15 has written an exhaustive article on "Richard Strauss as a Tone Poet," (to be continued). Reverence for his subject has not made him the less critical; but at the end he commits the mistake of attempting comparison of the ultimate worth of Strause Debussy...
...impressions are not always infallible, and yet the offhand, instinctive judgment upon which they rest is usually right enough for all practical purposes. In Dana's case the popular verdict is not likely to be reversed. It is one of the ironies of literature that this son of a poet, inheriting so much that was finest in the old New England culture, a pupil of Emerson, trained at Harvard, toiling gallantly in a great profession, a public-spirited citizen of a commonwealth which he served nobly and without much tangible reward, should be chiefly remembered by his record...
...POET...
...nearest approach to a plot, is embodied in a parody on Goethe, "The Hardships of Hans," by Mr. H. Amory '16, who apparently tries to satirize the great poet's sensitiveness to feminine influence. Mr. Amory depends for his laughs largely on horse play, and his humor is not altogether subtle and delicate; it is crude in many places. But if inexperienced, he is very ingenious in "getting a laugh...
...love in Aegean landscapes; and Mr. E. Whittlesey's "Along the Wall," vague but rather pretty. Mr. R. G. Hillyer's "The Voice to Respond" begins with a large idea, which becomes smaller as it becomes too subjective. His lines have a strikingly Swinburnian swing. Mr. R. Littell's "Poet Telegraphs" is so vague as to be positively obscure...