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...other words, Mr. Auden's verse is becoming more intense by concentration upon political symbolism, but its intensity does not penetrate the consciousness of the mass of readers because his syntax is still involved, his imagery still "metaphysical" in the XVIIth century sense. Nevertheless, there is vast improvement in communication over previous volumes. One can understand these poems. The poetry of Auden is no longer the Chinese puzzle it was when it first began and when an aristocratic damsel in his "literary senate" gave her applause in those incomparable words, too funny to be other than apocryphal: "I feel...
...disordered or abnormal myths. That the sane human mind instinctively tries to communicate intelligible ideas and that the production of long stretches of gibberish is extremely difficult was proved by the fact that most of TRANSITION'S prose-writers kept breaking through into something like sense and good syntax...
...Chicago Tribune thus headlined Sir William's appointment: MIDWAY SIGNS LIMEY PROF. TO DOPE YANK TALK *As an instance of British borrowins;, Mencken cites the fact that "the London Daily Express has lifted the whole vocabulary of the American newsweekly, TIME, and adopted even its eccentric syntax...
...seventeen, preacher to "the politest congregation in Boston" at twenty-one, and ultimately president of Harvard, was the first American to earn the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Germany. His studies in his second year at Goettingen he lists as Roman Law, Archacology, Ciccro's de Oratore, Greek syntax and meters, Greek and Latin Composition, Latin conversation, French, and Italian, Riding and dancing, he adds, are "pursued at odd intervals." Yet, he says, "All the students here who pass for diligent hear far more lecturing than I. Cogswell hears 8 courses daily." We see George Bancroft, fresh from college...
...convincing way the limitations that educational systems and formal requirements have placed upon the acquisition of an education that stresses individual creativeness and originality. To illustrate his ideas he tells the story of a student who came to his office once to enquire about some question of syntax. Instead of answering the question directly Professor Hillyer launched into a discussion of the beauties of Mackail's translations from the Greek anthology. He was rudely awakened, he says, by an efficient voice that demanded a direct answer to what seemed to the student a momentous question. "I cannot doubt." says Professor...