Word: unhousebroken
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...have waited long before writing this communication to see if anyone would reply to the "unhousebroken" letter of Mr. Wheelwright in regard to the "Eight More Harvard Poets". I was glad to see that it was ignored--but I feel that there are some aspects of the subject that call for further discussion...
Though M. A. B. has "bolstered" his array of adjectives with only two specific instances, his characterization of these eighty poems as "morbid", "disordered", "pleasant", "grotesque", "formless", "meager", "eccentric", "odd", "tricky", and "unhousebroken", is evidence of a sensitiveness hardly to be expected from out ingenuous pachyderm. J. B. WHEELWRIGHT '20 February...