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...verse, highly accomplished throughout, is more personal and lyric and, though not intrinsically better than the stories, is much more exciting formally. The most ambitious is Dunstan Thompson's "Memorare." A little over-insistent and even incoherent in its syntax, it is an intricately graceful and deeply moving poem. Only in "Memorare" incidentally, except for the advertisements, is there any reference to the war. Mr. Thompson also contributes the only characteristically youthful note to the issue in his arrogant review of "What Are Years" by Marianne Moore, in which he pours bitter scorn, inappropriate and incommensurate for its object, upon...
Miss Chase has mastered almost too well the English fiction on which she lectures. She writes in the great genteel evasive tradition, clean as Jane Austen and rather sweeter. Windswept is a treasury of sound thoughts and syntax whose spiritual dimension is revealed in such passages as this...
...death watch" for visiting Americans due to catch the boat train from the Gare St. Lazare for Cherbourg. The Sparrow saw his pal to the station, bounced off in the full dawn to do his chipper column on the night's adventures. It was a unique column -a syntax-slaughtering chronicle which editors were carefully warned not to unscramble. Said Playwright Eugene O'Neill of its author: "Why, he's the greatest writer in the world...
...group of Oxford poets, sparked by W. H. Auden, and including MacNeice, Stephen Spender and C. Day Lewis, staged a revolt against current English linguistic muddlement. By introducing modern technological terms into their verse, and by unburdening themselves of their subconscious minds-let the syntax fall where it might-they tried to make their language reflect life as it was actually being lived...
...Pound and Eliot are not the only anti-Miltonians. There are also Middleton Murry, Herbert Read, Bonamy Dobree. Against their stock charges of Milton's logorrhea, his maulings of English syntax, his Puritan intolerance, his philosophic narrowness. Defender Smith has a pat answer - "Not the thing said makes poetry, but a way of saying it." Milton "is world-great," says Smith quoting Carlyle on Dante, "not because he is worldwide, but because he is world-deep...