Word: rhymers
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...grants that a violinist is more than a fiddler, that an artist ranks above a painter of pictures, that a poet is superior to a rhymer, but these distinctions are based on certain gradations of value. Would the Association classify Sliding Billy Watson as a hobo of a bum and would Bozo Snyder qualify as either? The fine fraternity of the open road and box car is threatened with the caste system when one wandering gentleman calls himself by a sweeter sound than another. Neo-classicism is raising its head bums must beware the genre as well as critics...
...Keats have all had an influence over him, but so far he has not shown the ease and copiousness of a great poet. Another poet who shows the French influence is W. E. Henley, whose "Song of the Sword" is vivid and scrupulously finished. "The Book of the Rhymer's Club," lately from the press, is a collection of most charming and original poems by Riese, Yates, Symonds and others. It has in its collection some of the most finished and musical poems of modern time...
...sexless verse of our literary journals which feebly reflects the thought of others, is the little book of poems by Lloyd Mck. Garrison '88, which has just appeared, "Ballads of Harvard and Other Verses." Both the "Ballads" and "Other Verses" possess what the verse of no other Harvard rhymer since Ned Martin, author of "The Little Brother of the Rich," has been able to claim, originality and finish. Mr. Garrison has not bayed at the moon, but appreciating the limit of his poetic power has chosen his themes well within it, and the rcsult is not a striving...
...could n't exactly save this aspiring rhymer, we'd do our level best to cure...