Word: poetically
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Phillip W. Thayer in "A Transfigured Julia" gleefully hits off the capricious changes of fashion in girls: "Lissome Julia anatomically slight," "Robust Julia, playing golf and swimming harder," Suffrage Julia "prances in the [poet's] limelight." Witter Bynner is not up to his poetic form in "Though Wisdom Dies." Wisdom is a theme which cannot be completely developed in two short stanzas nor can imagination be "uncurled small as forget-me-nots." The characteristics of the verse of this number are cleverness, insight, a sure, light touch, and a sense of the sober humor of the contrasts of life...
Turning to the poets, we find Mr. Clark clinging to his chosen form--unrhymed and at times unrhythmical verse. "Spring" is sincere, sensitive, and despite its form truly poetic. "Soul of Man" is more incoherent and, I suppose, more completely "modern"--a riot of rich color, with no composition which the ordinary uninitiated reader can detect. Mr. Denison is modern in form only; in all other respects his "Dusk" is a very conventional piece of description...
...spirited throughout, but in the last two stanzas seems not quite at home with its form. "Transition," by Mr. Benshimol, lacks the variety of pause and cadence that blank verse demands, and is not always happy or clear in its figures of speech, but deserves praise for its poetic quality. Mr. Howe's "Morning Song" fills two Sapphic stanzas, each of which has in the third verse one more syllable than the orthodox number. Mr. Howe follows the rhythm of the Latin Sapphic scanned rather than the rhythm of the Latin Sapphic merely read--the rhythm of Swinburne rather than...
...there is to be poetry in the theatre, everything else must be subservient to it. The real new birth of the English theatre is coming in the true poetic drama. This is the belief," Mr. Barker said, "which induced me to take up this new staging movement. If we can get the principle of staging Shakespeare right, then we have the principal of staging all poetry...
...Parson's sonnet Beside the Sea is sufficiently poetic to be promising, though it weakens in the final verse. A weakish end mars also Mr. Sanger's little poem, which has, in general, a pretty movement. Mr. Putnam's Prayer presents a simple and attractive idea in poorly finished verses. Mr. MacVeagh's Treasure Trove is undistinguished. Mr. Leffingwell's Predestined, though faulty in certain details and needlessly long, shows poetic feeling and some sensitiveness to poetic diction...