Word: poetically
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...less intensive. Mr. Putnam's first sonnet is graceful and possesses what undergraduate poems often lack--logical structure. His second does not so clearly deserve this praise. "Crepuscule," by Mr. Hillyer, is a pretty conception prettily worked out. The verse runs well and the reminiscences of older English poetic diction (in a good sense) are not unpleasing. The other verse contributions in the number are of less interest. Mr. Snow's "Episode of Reincarnation" shows some skill in using devices which are almost foredoomed to failure in English metre. With reference to Mr. Auslander's "Maybe in Years to Come...
...sonorous enough to be self-justifying. Like most undergraduate writers of sonnets, and many older writers, Mr. Allinson is still more or less at the mercy of his form, as the words "all the world is fay" too plainly reveal: unsatisfactory workmanship clogs much of whatever poetic thought the sonnet contains. Mr. Code's sonnet is specific and lively; but it contains a nine-syllabled verse, and an Alexandrine. The latter can scarcely be intentional, since it is not the final verse. The sonnet form is so exacting that it is seriously damaged by stray lines which violate the meter...
...verse in the number "The Ascetic Speaks," by Mr. Paulding, is clearly the best. It shows, contrary to an opinion of happily decreasing prevalence, that the new free-verse form and genuine poetic expression are not incomparable. The poem possesses a depth of thought and feeling coupled with a delicacy of expression which is less noticeable in Mr. Cowley's "To a Chance Acquaintance." The sonnet by Mr. Rickaby is buoyant in tone and complete in execution. "The Arthropoda," by Mr. Rogers, represents a mingling of "cold blue science with a puikish dream divine" which has at least the merit...
...verse certainly shows variety enough. "Once in Illusion?" by H. Henderson '17, it attains poetic feeling and divination of the Wordsworthian school with a tinge of Platonism. If poetry nowadays were only compatible with clearness! The verse libre of A. Kline Sp might have changed forms with "Succor," since "Sunday Chapel" is no less prosaic than Harding Scholle '17's less self-conscious effort toward oddity in form. With more earnest expression of sincere feeling this must even be a vain plea addressed to writers who nervously fret to be "different"--in vain, as long as Pegasus, instead of trying...
...volumes in preparation are not yet in final form, little can be given except the titles and authors. These are as follows: "Studies in Anglo-Norman Institutions," Professor Charles Homer Haskins, of the History Department; "Lectures on the Industrial Revolution," Dean Edward Francis Gay, of the Business School; "Poetic Art in Ballad and Epic," Professor Francis Barton Gummere, of Haverford; "Aristotle: Meteorology," Professor Francis Howard Fobes, of Union; and "Judaism at the Beginning of the Christian Era." George Foote Moore, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religions...