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...poetry of the current issue is of more or less the respectable type; conventional and imitative, and greatly overshadowed by the prose contributions. W. A. Norris '18, however, has written a sonnet which would escape the brunt of the foregoing remark. "In Dawn" contains some very lovely lines. The vers libre of B. P. Clark '16 succeeds tolerably well until the last line, "And one star drifting in the east," for that one star in the east has had to do so much labor in the interest of the Muses, that the most of us feel it is time...
...verse is less distinguished; some of it, in fact, is bad. The most finished poem of the seven is Mr. Mitchell's sonnet; the most effective. Mr. Dos Passos' "Incarnation," an experiment in a form which allows itself something of the flexibility of "vers libre" yet retains rhyme and metre. Mr. Allinson's "Renaissance," a sonnet replete with mythological allusions of surprisingly cosmopolitan range, must have been written of some other April than the month we have just survived...
...verse in the number is no less varied. Mr. Clark's "In the Blue Sea Cavern," with its irregular metre and sparing use of rhyme, amply justifies its form by the fascination of its imagery. Mr. Putnam, in his sonnet, is at pains to ... "Make impassioned sense believe That memory improves my dull today." Mr. Sanger's "Aeroplanes" has a good swing. The "Grotesque" by Mr. Norris contains a good idea, marred at times by a somewhat perfunctory technique. The "Phantasy," by Mr. Willcox, though abounding in color and imagination, is breathless in its movement; it reminds...
...Cummings monopolizes pages eight and nine with a ballad and a sonnet. Literary self-consciousness is too apparent here. In the sonnet, especially, the Brunswick Lion, as we see him in front of the Germanic Museum, is not an extremely happy image with which to conclude verse...
...sonnet on "Nahant," Mr. W. A. Norris conveys his impression with some vividness, and in his "Lines" he re-works, not unpoetically, a somewhat familiar thought. Mr. A. Putnam, in his "Retrospect," gives one--perhaps mistakingly--the feeling that he is putting together cleverly but mechanically a poetical puzzle picture made of pieces sawed out of other men's poems. There is no suggestion of his having had anything to express that insisted on being uttered--though this criticism applies to a good deal of the verse in the present number. Mr. Sanger's "Panama Canal," though less imaginative than...