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The humorist critic was reminded that he had the honor of being in the "home town' of Amy Lowell, the vers libre exponent.
The first two courses are described in detail below. The first one will be a series of eight lectures by Professor Lowes on "Convention, Originality and Revolt in Poetry." (1) The Roots of Convention. (2) The Ways of Convention. (3) Originality and the Moulding of Conventions. (4) The Hardening of...
"With the entrance of the United States into the war, and especially with the aid of its navy, it seems to me quite possible that the war can be brought to a successful termination by the Allies before many more months have passed," said Alfred Noyes, the British poet, in...
...scenarios for the "movies," another the deductive attraction of vers libre. The latter enables a writer to utilize at once, it primitive, semi-poetic, material--idea of image--that, in the past, has had-to be worked up slowly and elaborately into conventional fiction form. Much of the "free verse" seen in the magazines is of this type--some of it quite successful and interesting, in its way, like Mr. Snow's poem, "The Girardian," in the Advocate--while a certain amount of the residual prose itself, like Mr. Low's sketches "Inspiration" and "The Forest," in the same number...
...contributions in verse outnumber those in prose. Indeed the issue is a veritable nest of singing-birds. The two poems already mentioned well represent the creditable average of all this verse. One contribution, "The Fiddler," by Cuthbert Wright, rises distinctly above it in a certain sureness and aptness in dealing with a topic not too macabre to lie within the writer's power. Of the two offerings in vers libre, one, the anonymous "Hermes," falls clearly below the average in leaving one uncertain whether it is seriously or humorously modelled upon the accepted pattern of the imagists. Another poem, "Middle...