Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this poetry does not come alone from a transient emotional flash. The bard in the Molpe did not compose his song on the spur of the moment. He had a helper who wrote out the lines. To properly write the lines of the song, the composer had to experience the inspirational cesiasy of the bard just as the bard needed some consciousness of craff as he sang. This refutes those who say that long and careful foil is foreign to poetry; through the mind of the poet as he works over his lines, rewriting and correcting, there is a subconscious...
...course, Mr. Mills might return from the opera some evening, take off his top hat and dress coat, roll up his sleeves, and write a song that would surge above the glamor of "The Sidewalks of New York." But down on the lower East Side the old grind organs still throb and Tammany Hall politicians light cigars, lean back in squeaky chairs, smile at one another, say: "He cannot...
SANCTUARY ! SANCTUARY !-Dallas Lore Sharp-Harper ($2.50). Most latterday naturalists collect for museums and write for the news- papers. Not so Mr. Sharp. When he lies on his stomach for hours watching a painted turtle dig her nest, or stays awake all night on the Pacific shore to hear the night cries of snowy plover, he is wholly an amateur of wild life. His books are secretions, not products or "copy." Hence, perhaps, the freshness and simplicity of his writing. He never seeks to impress his audience with the extent of his lore, and his experiences have been so diverse...
...racy of the certain day than it is revealing of the certain people. There is much color, but it is plastered on in hurried, florid gobs. Author Cohen, to whom high praise is due for a tremendous task well tried, betrays his inexperience chiefly by distrusting his ability to write with care as well as power. All these shortcomings notwithstanding, U. S. fiction has a new dynasty: the Pardways. Author Cohen is a Mosaic young man, cast on a large frame, fleshy but solid, slow-spoken, positive. He stayed at the University of Chicago only a few weeks, "because...
...write one complete, with a fine peroration...