Word: passionately
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are poets of passion who strike a bolder note, but there are few such highly seasoned passages. By far the greater part of the volume is given over to harmless tinklings. The section of war poems is interesting. Surely here, I thought, will be poems that show the heart and imagination of our colleges astir and aflame. But the poems selected are all of a neutral tinge and most of them of a pacifist taint; possibly they reflect the personal prejudices and predilections of Mr. Schnittkind. There is not one that breathes the spirit of hearty indignation, healthy hate...
...negro in the throng tore down the flag of his nation and raised a cry for Germany. He was threatened with the death. There are millions of his race in the South who might well be moved with the same passion. Germany, in all her brutality, never did the like in Belgium...
That was two years ago. It has taken our nation that long, through many more losses, and through hidden or open insult, to arouse its slumbering passion. "The mills of the gods grind slow, but they grind exceeding fine...
...Hours Between," has a certain tenuous charm, we come to "Aunt," a fairly successful character study in the conventional English A manner, and to "A Farewell to Epicurus. The latter is a skillfully-phrased and academically admirable poem of Mr. Hillyer's, but somehow lacks the verve and passion of most of his verse. "The Wound," a little further on, by Mr. Wright, is without a doubt the most striking thing in the number. Reminiscent as it is of the work of a contemporary Irish writer, it still has an original and fervid vividness of expression, which combined with...
...know that the fore boding of those who have declared war is so ghastly are the words of cravens. We see men who have been striving after the futile things of life suddenly become magnificent in their vision. We see selfish men grown generous and careless men stirred to passion by the deep love of country. We see the awakening of a dormant people, and know how terrible are many of the ways of peace...