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...they are civilized, intelligent, sensitive, literary--but they haven't very much to say for themselves. The poets, particularly fail to express anything vital or even individual. They write pretty fair verse in a good many different forms. Sonnets predominate, but there are specimens of ballade, epigram, stanzas, irregular rhyme and blank verse. There is the usual meteorological trend--snow, wind, waves, sunset and allied phenomena--but on the whole the range is reasonably wide and most of the authors are trying honestly enough to express what they themselves have felt and seen. There is no conscious imitation and very...
...Iron Ore Mines," and expresses his views about "America's Mission" in something that appears to be akin to free verse. Both his impressions and his views are worth while; but they seem rather scattering in their present form. Mr. Clark has difficulty, apparently, in deciding whether to rhyme or not to rhyme. In "Lullaby" he effects a compromise; the result is not so successful as some of his work in freer form. "Loneliness," by Mr. Putnam, purposely lacks definiteness of outline; the setting and the mood are, however, well suggested. "Minstrel," an unsigned sonnet of considerable charm, is simple...
...verse is less distinguished; some of it, in fact, is bad. The most finished poem of the seven is Mr. Mitchell's sonnet; the most effective. Mr. Dos Passos' "Incarnation," an experiment in a form which allows itself something of the flexibility of "vers libre" yet retains rhyme and metre. Mr. Allinson's "Renaissance," a sonnet replete with mythological allusions of surprisingly cosmopolitan range, must have been written of some other April than the month we have just survived...
...verse in the number is no less varied. Mr. Clark's "In the Blue Sea Cavern," with its irregular metre and sparing use of rhyme, amply justifies its form by the fascination of its imagery. Mr. Putnam, in his sonnet, is at pains to ... "Make impassioned sense believe That memory improves my dull today." Mr. Sanger's "Aeroplanes" has a good swing. The "Grotesque" by Mr. Norris contains a good idea, marred at times by a somewhat perfunctory technique. The "Phantasy," by Mr. Willcox, though abounding in color and imagination, is breathless in its movement; it reminds...
...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 of Cowper. Also he introduces rhyme. In substance the song is less interesting...