Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wooldridge's "Sea Fantasie" fulfills its title. Without particular pattern, it is a chaos of clear ideas, a dream-fugue. For that very reason it succeeds. The "Rondel" and the "Answer to my Rondel" of Mr. Dobson, by their delicate felicity elude comment. Gentle craftsmanship linked with an alertly shy fancy, not mere prettiness, but poetry that whispers--this is Mr. Dobson's province...
...wonder why it is secreted at the very end of the number. Of the five sonnets, Mr. Hull's "To a Cat" and the sestet of Mr. Cabot's "Late Spring" stand out as something more than a succession of words arranged with varying skill in a predetermined pattern. Mr. Morrison's "Song" contains two or three significant lines and flows along sonorously. In "Lines," Mr. Behn has conveyed a single impression through the medium of a successfully irregular verse pattern. The poem is a little too long for its purpose and contains too much exotic detail. The misspelled pomegranate...