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...LETTERS OF WILLIAM AND DOROTHY WORDSWORTH, 1806-1820. Two vols. -Edited by Ernest de Selincourt-Oxford University Press ($14). Second installment (first published in 1935) of what will be, when completed, the most comprehensive collection of Wordsworth letters...
...match played in Boston, the Harvard Club defeated the Varsity "B" squash team, 3-2. Daniel F. Keyes '37 defeated E. S. Underwood. A. F. Wordsworth of the Harvard Club overthrow Robert O. Easton '37, as W. R. Bascom trounced Peter F. Cunningham '39. Carl S. Oakman, Jr. '38 beat J. Cross. The crucial game of the match was the one between J. W. Appeal of the Harvard Club and Hendrik DcKruif '38. Appel won in three out of four...
...little islands of ice do look! It seems as if they wait hopefully for some sudden chill to freeze them into their accustomed mass. The sky is bright and blue. Methinks much too much for a winter's morning. In my ears hum those pretty lines of Mr. Wordsworth...
...with a little study of Leopardi which appeared last year. In this book she undertakes the study of one episode in the life of another Romantic poet, Byron, whom contemporaries regarded as the chief of all. To this day he enjoys a greater reputation on the Continent than even Wordsworth, as Senor de Madariaga was once gracious enough to remind...
...Nathalia Crane -Random House ($1.50). Mere mention of poetry makes most men itch. Not until poetry the thing has been sent again & again to the critical laundry would most self-respecting readers wear it next to their skins. Modern poets have always raised a storm of apprehensive, defensive abuse. Wordsworth was condemned for his prosiness, Whitman for his barbaric yawp, Browning for his obscurity. But readers of 1936 think they have a better case against their poets than more ancient moderns did against theirs. Nervous readers, cornered and made to listen to the spoutings of W. H. Auden...