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...Christmas number of the Harvard Advocate, which will appear shortly before the holidays, will feature an article on American education entitled "Ignite, Ignite," by Ezra Pound, prominent American poet. Mr. Pound is famous as the author of "Cantos," which was published last year, "Canzoni," and "Umbra...
...Canzoni, Ripostes," 2 vols., London (1913), Elkin Mathew; "Des Imagistes"--Published by Albert and Charles Boni as a number of the "Glebe", a publication edited by Alfred Kreymborg (1914); "Des Imagistes"--Published by the Poetry Bookshop, London (1914); "Personal" London (1916), Elkin Mathew; "Lustra," Privato Edition; New York (1917); "Umbra; The early poems of Ezra Pound," London (1920); "Physique de I'Amour," by Remy de Gourmont, translated by Ezra Pound, London (1921); 'Sixteen Cantos of Ezra Pound," Paris (1926), Three Mountains Press. "Oatholic Anthology," selected and edited by Ezra Pound, London (1915), Elkin Mathew...
...Rubaiyat" is creditable but not valuable. Mr. Allinson contributes two poems, "Die Gotterdammerrung" and a sonnet. The first is chiefly in unrhymed pentameters, with nine-syllabled verses interspersed. Its workmanship is imperfect, and its lines tend to monotony; yet it is impressive in its dignity. His sonnet "Umbra Naturae" again shows either carelessness or radical doctrine as to versification: it begins with a nine-syllables verse (unless we give two syllables to "here"), and ends with what looks like a rough Alexandrine, but may be a badly accented pentameter with two trisyllabic feet...
...University Observatory is preparing to photograph the total eclipse of the moon which will occur tomorrow night. At 10.17 the moon will enter the umbra of the earth's shadow, and at 12.19 the total eclipse will begin; this will end at 1.48 and at 3.50 the moon will again be clear of the earth's shadow. By photographs the light of the sky will be measured during the eclipse, and the light of the moon eclipsed compared with the moon's light unobscured. The observers will expose also several plates during the eclipse to discover if any hitherto undetected...