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More can be said for both the poetry and the book reviews which to a large extent bear the stamp of literary competency. Worthy of particular note is the "Sonnet" by J. R. Agee...
...later. Thatcher Colt, a combination of Grover Whalen and Philo Vance, was one of New York City's Police Commissioners you may never have heard about. "What [he] really wanted was to be a musician and poet (in deadly privacy he applied himself to the forms of the sonnet and the villanelle and practiced cadenzas on a flute) but unfortunately nature had made him a detective and, as he once told me, with that quirkish smile of his, 'Not even my duties as Police Commissioner shall keep me from the business of solving crimes...
China with a picture on it. Biddies, each in lacy bonnet, English accents, (grace a sonnet Said at mealtime...
...volatile creature whose morals, unlike her golden slippers, were tarnished, she successively made him want to write an ironic short story, a romantic sonnet, an essay damning all literature, a bitter moralistic satire. But at length, with the cooling of his fevers, came wisdom. He realized that it was he, not Daisy, who changed -"my successive conceptions of Daisy had been merely the reflections'in another." Then, demanding only that she be her picturesque, wanton self, he wanted to write little sketches of her-attitudes, intonations, phrases-like the vignettes of Degas...
...essays on poetry, Poet Untermeyer sticks to conventional rhythms in his own verse, but experiments with new rhymes: "fronds-bronze, millions-brilliance, color-duller, cardboard-hard, bored,"-studied inaccuracies which emphasize a lack of spontaneity. Indeed, this poet is at his best in historical comment, or in one satiric sonnet that is an anthology of Georgian poetry, complete with bucolic landscape where "immemorial lambs keep moonlit trysts with deathless nightingales...