Word: passionately
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...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...
...sustained sweep and music of the line, as contrasted with the briefer felicity of Mr. Norris' phrase. In fact, the two poets present an interesting and suggestive opposition throughout. If in Mr. Norris I find sentiment, fancy, wit--in the older sense--in Mr. Hillyer I find, above all, passion and imagination. But their latest poems are both equally beautiful in their different ways, and both offer promise of even higher performance...
...unsuccessfully reminiscent. Mr. Damous "Beauty" is one of the few contributions to this Advocate which are more than merely creditably academic. It is spontaneously poetic in both thought and expression, notably above the average of verse in college publications, which is more than can be said of his "Passion." This too is charming in expression, but it seems forced and artificial in thought. "Passion is a little child," sings Mr. Damon. Some day he may discover the child suddenly and powerfully grown up. Another poem deserving special mention is Mr. Cowley's "Adventurer," which has rugged force and individuality...
...life and passion of the "Flower of France" are quite wonderful and divine enough in historic fact, without adding sugary heroics in order to pamper a public taste as cheap as dirt. The crime of her trial and death are in all belief bad enough without inventing impossibly fiendish detail and a demonaic bishop for villain. Incidentally, the authoress of "Joan the Woman" seemed to have been rather hard put to it to present a good group of Frenchmen as the soldiers of the Maid and an equally good group of Englishmen compelled by cruel History to be her murderers...