Word: starway
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...modern writers with a poetic expression coming as near the lyric as the static quality of intellectual poetry will permit. This same bound lyricism, gaining in immediacy and intellectual intenseness what it loses in fluid song, characterizes all the better poems of the issue. Helen Wieselburg's "Starway," and Creighton Gilbert's "War Poem" again display the advantages as well as the price of the poet's surrender of impersonal distance, while the works of Arthur Blair and Norman Macleod show the inevitable failure of the static poetic effect when applied to less immediate non-intellectual topics which cannot sustain...
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