Word: sommer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others, they hardly merit close attention. Richard Sommer, a tutor in English, might be excused for his erratic rhyme schemes and his stammering metrics, if he had not labelled The Soldier a villanelle. There is, I submit, no point in pretending to a strict form if one violates it as flagrantly as Sommer does. If Sommer wants a proper category for this contorted piece, he might choose "virelay," defined as "a song or poem esp. with an intricate or monotonous rhyme scheme...
John Wilmerding' contributes a short poem notable for its intricacy more than its beauty. Richard Sommer's work has neither of these qualities...
...this month's Advocate deserve less space, perhaps, than their predecessors, but various exigencies force them to get even less space than they deserve. Louisa Newlin has written a competent and interesting story--quite a good story, actually--about two young couples on a Mediterranean island; and Richard Sommer has written a long Prothalemion of some mark, whose convolutions cannot be explored...