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...study of Wordsworth's poetic decline such as Dean Sperry's has long been needed, for nearly every other previous critic has been the "man of a thesis," as the French say; that is, with Professor Herbert Reed, for example, Annette Vallon was the all-sufficient reason while others have averred that it was Wordsworth's adoption of Tory principles after his disgust with the French Revolution due to the invasion of Switzerland. "The Ecclesiastical Sonnets" are indeed sorry stuff after the "Tintern Abbey," the "Prelude" and the "Ode on Intimations of Immortality." "In fact," as a CRIMSON editor...
Like Auden and Spender, Mr. Day Lewis has a special poetic vocabulary which makes his symbolism difficult for the uninitiated. One is grateful, therefore, for the explanations of it given in the manifesto. His own poetry is the least obscure of the lot. Not even "From Feathers to Iron" offers any real difficulty, and the satire of "The Magnetic Mountain" is very forthright; one may instance the passage beginning "Let us now praise famous...
...Elizabethan days every dramatist was a poet, every playgoer a poetry lover. But nowadays poets generally leave their Muse behind when they go to town. To most moderns, poetic drama means selfconscious, little-theatre stuff-&-nonsense. Ambitious Poet Archibald MacLeish (Conquistador), seeing no good reason for the modern notion that Poetry is by nature a bad actor, has tried his hand at a verse-play. His first attempt. Panic, took him 16 months to write.* Playgoing readers will find it an exciting experiment, will hope Author MacLeish's example may attract some others...
...default of the money that no Congo Negro possessed. In his fascinating yarn Herr Bauer has made the most of the contrast between black man and white king. When he is writing of Stanley's trip down the virgin Congo, the prose picks up speed, attains poetic concentration. The translation, by Eden and Cedar Paul, is unobtrusively good...
...Witter Bynner's poetic phizog labeled as Alfred Neumann (TIME...