Word: sonnets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believes that he gains in impressiveness by obscurely hinting at the concluding incidents instead of recounting them lucidly. Curiously enough, although Mr. Morrison's "Loaves and Fishes" is the only story not marked by too great an emphasis upon this method of suggestion, the verse that he contributes, a "Sonnet", in addition to certain faults of meter and metaphorical language, lapses into the enigmatical. A little study, of course, reveals the meaning, and the trouble here seems to be not so much an exaggeration of "suggestiveness" as the fact that the writer has not sufficiently defined his thought...
...poems, my own taste prefers Mr. Sedgwick's sonnet, which is far superior to the average run of Advocate poetry--of the recent past at any rate; and if Mr. Dobson's maintained for its will fourteen lines the swing and dash of its second quatrain, it too would deserve a place in the same high class...
However, in his "Extracts from the Poetry of Chi Lao", Mr. Whitman challenges achievement. These are Whit manifestly not Chinese: but they are the stuff of poetry. Mr. R. C. Rogers in his "Sonnet" fingers an incoherent loveliness. The octave speaks of "chords that bind", an unfortunate ambiguity; the sestet hovers momentaly on the threshold of beauty; but the poem as a whole is tenuous and inarticulate. The "Winter Night's Spell" of Mr. Best plucks an old lute. We cannot help wishing there were more lines like these...
...Corneille" in Emerson D at 8 o'clock this evening. The lecture is open to the public and will be given in French. Professor Guy came to the University on January 26 as Exchange Professor to give, in addition to his series of lectures, a regular course on the Sonnet in French Literature...
Professor Henderson will lecture at the Sorbonne during the second half of the present academic year, while Dean Henri Guy of the University of Toulouse is at the University giving a course on the history of the Sonnet in France and a series of public lectures on Corneille. Dean Guy arrived in Cambridge last Wednesday...