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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...
...teaches French literature at Toulouse in addition to being Dean, is a scholar of unusual distinction and is the author of various works on the literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It is announced that in addition to his half-course on the subject of "The Sonnet in French Literature", Professor Guy will give a series of public lectures on the Work of Pierre Corneille. Both the lectures and the course will be conducted in French, though the dates of meeting have not yet been announced...
French 30 hf.: "The Sonnet in French Literature." Lectures and text interpretation. Half-course starting second half-year. (Two hours a week.) Conducted in French by Professor Henri Guy of the University of Toulouse...