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...final poem "Love and the Garlands" he uses, with workmanship nearly perfect, the trochaic pentameter of Browning's "One Word More" in a sestina. Indeed his feeling for rhythm is so keen and so subtile that some of his verses will not read themselves to an ear less delicately trained than his own; and his work is in a way analogous to the music of certain modern composers. Combined with his generous freedom in trisyllabic feet is the liberty that he takes with orthodox forms in substituting pauses for syllables and in docking the first feet of pentameters. To those...
Charles Hall Grandgent '83: Discourses on Dante. The book begins with a sestina and ends with a sonnet while throughout the whole are scattered fragments of translation from Dante's works and from his contemporaries' poetry...
...Class Ode, by Paul Rice Doolin, is a good chore well done, and there is no particular fault to be found with Mr. King's "Comradeship," in the June number. The Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize Poem, by A. Morley Dobson, shows much skill in the difficult sestina, but far too little depth of judgement. In more senses than one, it is simple to uphold one side of the Flume controversy, and only to rhapsodize, not judge, or analyze the question. The normal reaction from this sort of thing has been expressed by an undergraduate some months ago, in the Harvard...
...have written this rather attractive sestina "just for a handful of silver" by way of prize, as to have let bad grammar and worse sentiment appear as the product of one's muse. Among the smaller poems in the June number appear such lines as these...
...fifth number of the Advocate, which appears today, contains the following articles: "The Maverick," by R. J. Walsh '07; "Jones '62," by E. H. Gruening 1G.; "The Man with the Soul," by W. L. Stoddard '07; "Toodles," by K. B. Townsend '08; "Sestina," by H. W. Bell '07; "The Morning After," by A. Whitman '09; Autumn Wind," by R. MacVeagh '10; Editorials, Brief, Calendar...