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...Ashton Sanborn '05, assistant curator of the Egyptian section in the University Museum of Philadelphia, has been for the past two seasons in Egypt with the expedition from that Museum. The expedition is in charge of Clarence S. Fisher, G. '08-09, who was formerly associated with the University Palestinian Expedition and with the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts expedition in Egypt...
...mean that Mr. Sanborn has forgotten to be a poet entirely; the lines I have quoted prove at least his good intentions, and I shall try presently to show that he has accomplished something besides the creation of crazy images. But we should have to look in vain among the ultra-brilliant conceits of Miss Lowell or the adjectival debauches of Mr. John Gould Fletcher for anything as incomprehensible as these lines from "Elevation...
...have tried to choose the worst set of images to show how far Mr. Sanborn's mistake can lead him. Out of justice to him I will quote the best image, an emotional image, if I may use the term. He is telling how two persons in a store talking in their alien English tongue feel themselves apart from the French crowd around them, and in a way above them, "Like a child's vague dream of principality." This is not studied; it is natural, effective. But unfortunately it stands in comparative solitude...
...adverse criticism and all ridicule that has been unjustly hurled at such authentic writers of the new rhythms as Richard Aldington and F. S. Flint. Not content with writing six words as six different lines and sprawling them across the page at a downward angle of 45 degrees. Mr. Sanborn has given us lines made up of such monosyllables as "and", "up", "or," etc. And so seldom do we find any rhythmic pattern of even the "freest" kind that we are startled when it accidentally puts in an appearance. This is indeed "shredded prose...
...Sanborn can attain to a more melodious form of verse and learn to see and express things with less straining of the senses and the English language, the artistic insight that he has shown in the general structure of "Vie de Bordeaux" may give him a place of note among contemporary poets...