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Other poems in Cowley's new book are nostalgic American lyrics in the vein of his earlier collection, Blue Juniata. They reveal sound, minor poetic talent...
Other Moslems who interested the Nazis were the wild, proud Afghan tribesmen on the western borders of India. Poetic handbills printed in the Pushtu, Urdu, and Brahui languages urged the tribesmen to a jihad (holy war) "to strike off the Anglo-Saxon yoke," promised them heaping banquets and succulent maidens in the soft lands of India. Berlin proclaimed the "independence of India" from the Hotel Kaiserhop, relayed applause for the proclamation from "204 Hindu nationalists...
...motive. He is free to tell the truth as he sees it, whether it is disaster or the resurrection." In practice this seems to make Editor Williams feel that unless a poem tells its readers something disastrous or resurrectional it is not a poem. His anthology contains much overwrought poetic material that could all suitably be grouped under Contributor John Berryman's observation: "Whippoorwill calling, excrement falling." But the book also contains very fine poems by R. P. Blackmur, Marianne Moore, Delmore Schwartz, others...
...author stooped so low as to pun a phrase from "Fair Harvard" as a title for a chapter on printing--"Type of our ancestor's worth." The index of the book is very sketchy, and such material as the filling in of Back Bay is omitted. And certainly even poetic liceuse does not excuse the illustrator from depicting the Charles flowing serenely past Massachusetts Hall in the direction of what is now the Square. But these criticisms are decidedly minor in character, and do not detract from the general felicity of Mr. Tourtellot's treatment. "The Charles" remains a thoroughly...
Died. Mme. Georgette Leblanc, 66, longtime intimate and "inspiration" of Belgian poet Maurice Maeterlinck; after a year's illness; in Le Cannet, France. In 1893, entranced by Maeterlinck's poetic mysticism, which she discovered after a chance reading of his essay on Emerson, she tore up her contract with the Opera Comique, left Paris for Brussels "to become the wife of the great Maeterlinck." Wearing on her forehead a blue diamond which she said was a symbol of happiness, Mme. Leblanc met Maeterlinck at a supper party, lived with him for more than 20 years, and maintained...