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...Modern Drama really helps. We long for the "sang-froid of an urster," to quote her "Sonnet From the Brooklynese," which is as perfect a thing of its kind a we have seen. "The Fly in the Ointment" and "Poem for Mother's Day" are superior works; others are not too good. Obviously we all can't be Nashes or Parkers, but there are other drums to be beaten. "I Feel Better Now" is one of them...
...else is left for the Sophomore President, the Junior President, the Senior President, and all their co-incumbents to do? I think this is an excellent time to abolish an outgrown sinecure. Henceforth let us bouquet our friends, not with ballots, but with the Heroic Couplet and the Shakespearian Sonnet if need be! Eugene Du Bois...
These poems from the pen of a Harvard graduate of 1911, vice president of the Outlook, are full of sincerity, and intensity of feeling. His technique is admirable; the spirit behind the verses is genuine. The title poem "See Prayer", and the opening poem, in addition to the final sonnet sequence are splendidly done. The verses always rise above the ranks of mere competence. Perhaps it is unjust to refer to them in this way. Suffice it to say that here are pleasant poems not destined to immortality...
Glenn Hunter plays the English schoolboy with a certain shy dignity which magnifies the part beyond the author's limits, and rightly so. We know of no scene so rich in possibilities as that in which, teacup and plate on Knee, the lad confesses (in a deplorable sonnet), his love. The laurels of the evening, clearly...
...supposed to have worked on Ben Hur, he toiled in coal mines, a cement mill, a silver mine, on a trade magazine; but kept his literary ambitions. Though a graduate of Lafayette he spent two earlier years at Princeton, where the Nassau Literary Magazine encouraged him by accepting a sonnet, a sketch. A year ago he left his editorial job, took his wife, two children and many rejected manuscripts to Georgetown, Conn., set himself to write his prize-winning Brothers in the West...