Word: sonneteers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...closing date of the prize story competition. Though they need not be limited to such a field, stories about college life, or with college life as a background, will receive particular attention. The essay should be preferably on some undergraduate topic of current interest, while the sonnet may be on any subject, including love. The latter provision is a change from last year, as is the provision that the sonnets need not be in Petrarchan form. Further details regarding the competitions, in each of which a $25 prize is offered, may be obtained at Advocate House any evening between...
Continuing in its precedent set last year, the Harvard Advocate announces three prize competitions for the best story, essay or sonnet submitted by any undergraduate of the University not a member of the Advocate Board. A prize of $25 is offered for the best story presented on or before December 1, 1920. Similar prizes will be given for the best essay and the best sonnet, which are due March 2 and June 1, 1921, respectively. The essay should be preferably on some undergraduate topic of current interest, while the sonnet may be on any subject except love. The full regulations...
...poets represented in this issue are 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...