Word: writer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...well-phrased, and the "Song" by W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez has a pleasing melody. But most notable is J. H. Wheelock's "Dawn in the City," which, in spite of serious defects, is well worth reading. Its merit lies in the vividness of its pictures, and the success the writer achieves in conveying the feeling inspired by a prospect of city streets in the gray light of morning. In this it recalls some of Mr. Henley's London poems. But its effectiveness is weakened by a curious uncertainty in the handling of the verse. The metre is prevailingly iambic...
Since that time, M. Tardieu, who left the active diplomatic service with the rank of first secretary of embassy, has devoted himself to the study of contemporary history and politics. In 1904 he succeeded to the position of writer on foreign affairs for the "Temps." He likewise published in that paper a number of instructive articles on politics, under the assumed name of George Villiers, and also assisted in editing the Revue des Deux Mondes...
...essay on Stephen Phillips, by J. T. Addison, goes, without question, to the heart of the whole matter. By means of admirable selections the writer demonstrates Mr. Phillips's virtues and defects as a poet; and continuing classes him as a playwright--one versed in the theatrical--as opposed to a real dramatist--an objective student of character. The comparison with Shakespeare, urged for the purpose of bringing out Mr. Phillips's dramatic flimsiness, might easily have been made more illuminating by slightly profounder meditation...
...individual, poetic yearning and by meagre achievement. Thus "Browning," by B. G. Brawley, is vast in its way, but gets its being from a figure obviously more suited to Swinburne--one of mingled sea and wind. "Sea-Poems," by J. H. Wheelock, are scarcely more successful, owing to the writer's tendency to be, fussy with his imagery, and to gasp whenever the mood requires powerful inarticulacy. "Nineveh," by J. S. Miller, Jr., has an ingenious conceit, well worked...
...contributors to the Lampoon is the despair of the reviewer. In it one has always to reckon with pictures as well as print, and this time there is music as well. It clearly ought to be reviewed by a committee; no one man can cover the ground. The present writer has been obliged to call in the aid of musical and artistic friends, for whose judgement he is grateful, but not responsible. It is reported that the song may be burlesque, but it is not music; that the pictures may have humor, but have no art. Let us say, then...