Word: sestet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, in his "Extracts from the Poetry of Chi Lao", Mr. Whitman challenges achievement. These are Whit manifestly not Chinese: but they are the stuff of poetry. Mr. R. C. Rogers in his "Sonnet" fingers an incoherent loveliness. The octave speaks of "chords that bind", an unfortunate ambiguity; the sestet hovers momentaly on the threshold of beauty; but the poem as a whole is tenuous and inarticulate. The "Winter Night's Spell" of Mr. Best plucks an old lute. We cannot help wishing there were more lines like these...
...impressive numerically at least. Mr. Cowley's "Eighteenth Century Sonnet," intentionally unorthodox in form, is the most interesting and individual of the poems. I wonder why it is secreted at the very end of the number. Of the five sonnets, Mr. Hull's "To a Cat" and the sestet of Mr. Cabot's "Late Spring" stand out as something more than a succession of words arranged with varying skill in a predetermined pattern. Mr. Morrison's "Song" contains two or three significant lines and flows along sonorously. In "Lines," Mr. Behn has conveyed a single impression through the medium...