Word: wheelock
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Religion of Spring," by Van Wyck Brooks, is a haze of vague expression and puffs of thought. It impresses one like that admirable Turner picture, "Steam and Fog." The longest of three short poems is one by J. H. Wheelock, "The Close of Mass." This has the quality of good poetry, in that it will bear re-reading and inspires thought...
...following undergraduates will also assist the Committee: 1907--E. W. Clark, assistant head usher, E. R. Brumley, W. Burns, H. W. Durant, A. H. Elder, D. West; 1908--A. W. Hinkel, assistant head usher, W. B. Comstock, R. K. Fletcher, K. Howes; M. Osborne, J. Wheelock; 1909--S. Hoar, assistant head usher, K. S. Cate, J. A. Locke, W. Roelker, E. T. Wentworth, J. P. Willetts; 1910--F. M. de Selding, assistant head usher, R. W. Atkins, J. Bloomer, J. J. Boyce, W. F. Morgan, H. Watson...
There are five poems: a "Villanelle," by C. E. Whitmore, which has the usual characteristics of a villanelle; "Illusion" by J. H. Wheelock, which gives one the impression of having appeared in the Monthly at intervals for years; "I Craved for that Lost Twilght by the Sea," by W. H. Wright, the unreality of which keeps it from being as mysterious and improper as one fears it was meant to be; "A Lover to his Too Docile Lady," three neatly turned stanzas on a conventional theme; and, finally, the somewhat ambitious "Sea Lovers" of H. Hagedorn, Jr. This last piece...
...Henshaw, a burlesque, "The Chambers Maid"; Mr. Mclntyre, a story, "Her House out of Order"; Mr. Stoddard, an essay, "The American Snob"; and Mr. Walsh, a poem, "The Explorer." "Dead Man's Pine," a story, by Mr. K. B. Townsend '08, "Sea-Vision," a poem, by Mr. J. H. Wheelock 08, and two editorials complete the list...
Most difficult of all to estimate is Mr. Wheelock's achievement in "Sea-Visions." The irregular metre and occasional faulty rhymes ("moan" and "gone," "saw" and "door") are disturbing. The overlapping phrases in the first line of each stanza, on the other hand, and the insistent refrain, "O thalassa, thalassa," are decidedly effective, and only fail to be completely successful, perhaps, from the fact that they seem a bit too consciously employed. These, however, are minor faults in a poem which, as a successful attempt to treat a great theme worthily, is decidedly unusual in undergraduate verse...