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...true Wordsworth, the well of his poetic emotion. Professor Herford, on the other hand, looks upon the life of the poet with the cold, green eye of pedantic scholarship. He manages to maintain his equilibrium as far as Wordsworth's sex life is concerned, but his contributions as a critic are as negligible as they are traditional...
...meaningless. It is not so important to dissect. Wordsworth under the eyes of modern psychology as it is to attempt a tolerant and cogent understanding of his poetry. As a great poet unfortunately out of vogue. Wordsworth does not need a historian or a psychiatrist, but a great critic, a literary game apparently also out of vogue...
Year ago in Los Angeles appeared a new local monthly magazine called The Critic of Critics. Its announced aim was "to rid the city of such persons as Mayor Porter, Rev. Robert ["Fighting Bob"] Shuler, and show up other long hairs who try for fame or money by limiting personal liberty of Americans." In ensuing months the scope of the publication grew wider, its purpose less clearly defined. A typical article of last month's issue was "Guy McAfee, 'Capone' of L. A."-an expose of the purported vice-reign of Former Policeman McAfee. The magazine...
Readers of The Critic of Critics (claimed circulation 15,000) immediately recalled a boxed announcement which had accompanied the Capone-McAfee article: ". . . If any member of the staff of this publication is molested in any way it will be the signal for the opening ... of a well-filled safe deposit box now reposing in the vaults of a certain bank." The same thought occurred when Widow Frances Spencer cried hysterically: "Ask Guy McAfee who did it!" But no safe deposit box was found; and McAfee established that he was in the Hall of Justice at the time of the killings...
...last of the year's talks to be given in that connection. The speaker went on to illustrate the enthusiasm with which Woodberry inspired his pupils, and the devotion with which he followed their literary careers, by reading several of the letters which the well-known poet and critic wrote to young men on the threshold of a literary life. He ended by stating that "nothing could have pleased Woodberry more than to have had such a room as this...