Word: poetically
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...poetry excells. Hillyer's "Retrospect" indubitably sings,--though in a well-worn tone; Dos Passos admirably conveys the spirit of the prairies; and Nelson's "Madam" strikes an original vital poetic note. His readers, however, should not turn the page. The remaining verse is more conventional. Hillyer's first sonnet too clearly recalls Drayton; his second, Donne: they constitute studies rather than self-expression. The anonymous run on sonnet appears at line fourteen to have missed connections. Howe's sapphics, on the other hand, are metrical and in phrasing delightful though artificial...
This issue of the Advocate contains, on the whole oar-marks of talent. The poetic end of the magazine bears itself very creditably, at least in respect to quantity, but where--oh, where are the fiction writers and the story-tellers...
Among the poems, the most noteworthy is "Belgium," the McKim Garrison prize poem by Mr. T. Nelson, who shows clever craftsmanship, fine feeling effectively restrained, and a gift for poetic expression. Mr. K. A. Robinson's "Ballad of Famous Princes," is a vigorous poem, pleasingly sonorous, well rounded off in thought and form. Mr. G. H. Code's "Lusitania" is an appropriate dirge, too quiet for the subject, but dingified and earnest. There are three smoothly adequate descriptive lyrics: Mr. H. Hendrson's "The Twllight Mourner," on rural evening and the whip-poor-will; Mr. R. S. Mitchell's "Threnody...
...poetic offerings are timely. Mr. Skinner boldly adopts "vers libra"; Mr. Nelson chooses a compromise--stanzas of two, three, or four lines, and a rhyme-scheme which wanders into couplets and out again. Three other poets show the influence of the season in a "Ballad of Love," a "Love Dream," and a "Call of the Spring." Two of these are examples of amatory pantheism, somewhat obscurely though not ineffectively expressed. Mr. Nelson's effort is simpler, clearer, more cheerful, and on the whole more pleasing...
...familiar key of Kipling's dialesticisms. The second is a highly colored trifle as frail as the "jewelled veil gossamer" that its writer mentions. The last is purposeless but inoffensive. Like so much modern verse, all of these compositions lack the bone and fibre of solid thought and poetic necessity. They leave the impression that their authors sat down and cried, "Lo, I must produce a poem," and then cudgelled their brains for a proper subject...