Word: rondel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sweetened notes. Pertinex writes in his sonnets about "Inspiration"; Whitney Cromwell writes with a pleasant absence of gravity about "Reading an Obituary". George P. Ludlam speaks in a serious poetic style in "Illustrating a Persian Mosaic". Theodore Hope writes briefly on "Nightfall"; and Charles Allen Smart contributes a rondel, "I Mounted Joy at Eventide...
...Wooldridge's "Sea Fantasie" fulfills its title. Without particular pattern, it is a chaos of clear ideas, a dream-fugue. For that very reason it succeeds. The "Rondel" and the "Answer to my Rondel" of Mr. Dobson, by their delicate felicity elude comment. Gentle craftsmanship linked with an alertly shy fancy, not mere prettiness, but poetry that whispers--this is Mr. Dobson's province...