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When he has a split-second to spare Merrill Moore writes a sonnet. He dictates them to his wife, composes them in shorthand between cases at the hospital. improvises them while motoring home. Anything may serve to set him going from the sight of breakfast eggs to the news of the death of the New York World. Typical is his sonnet to the Prince of Wales: My admiration for the Prince of Wales Is far-flung as a fleet of royal sails. Poor fellow, duties he must do as prince, Endless, fatiguing, and yet never wince! ... As deep as cotton...
...Shakespeare sonnet...
...only valentines but epitaphs in lines less mighty than aristocratic. Even when she compares a woman's breasts to wild carrot and onion blossoms or describes the mating of dinosaurs, she contrives to make neither an uncouth nor an arresting gesture. At the sight of a new sonnet sequence critics may hitch up to their typewriters and look for unstruck keys, but ordinary readers will prefer Poet Millay's less pretentious quatrains...
...used. The motto, "Veritas," he discovered, was not actually used until 1885 except for a brief period under Josiah Quincy although it was officially recommended at an overseers' meeting in 1643. At a meeting of the Harvard Club in New York in 1878 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1816, presented a sonnet ridiculing the omission of "truth" on the Seal, in so doing unintentionally causing a general protest which resulted in the cutting...
Poetry is represented in this issue by a competent sonnet of Sherman Conrad's, and then by a thing called "Opening of A Long Poem (Maybe)" by James Agee. Over this entry the well laid schemes of apportionment went to pieces, and any editor might well wonder what to do with the remainder of a magazine which had decided to risk publication of Mr. Agee's opus. The poem is frankly an imitation--I will not say a copy--of Byron's "Don Juan", using the same verse form and employing the same tricks and devices...