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...CHARWOMAN'S SHADOW - Lord Dusany-Putnam ($2). Poetic alchemy in mediaeval Spain...
...Most histories of Greek Literature," he said, "take it as an established fact that the Homeric epics were the earliest crystallization of folk-song in the ancient world that might properly be termed poetry, and that all poetic song has descended from them and from them alcne. As a matter of fact, the molpe, antedating the Iliad and Odyssey by many years, is the true spring of song for which the historians are looking...
...others, likewise saying little, doing much, are in the order of their appointment: Oliver Wendell Holmes, 85, of Massachusetts-"a poetic turn of expression and a liberal cast of thought." Willis Van Devanter, 67, of Wyoming-"a student not impractical, a scholar not pedantic." James Clark McReynolds, 64, of Tennessee, a bachelor with few pleasures aside from work-"one of the most detached, most solitary, least wordly men now in public life." Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 70, of Massachusetts, the only Jew who ever sat in the Supreme Court- "in his decisions the rights of property are likely to be subordinated...
...eight lectures. The first one will have as its general subject "Tradition". The remaining seven will come on Wednesday and Friday evenings throughout the present month and into the first week of November. His schedule and subjects are as follows: October 15, "The Molpe," October 20, "Metre"; October 22, "Poetic Diction"; October 27, "Architecture"; October 29, "The Heroic Age"; November 3, "Hamlet and Orestes"; November 5, Conclusion...
...alien powers malignantly striving to reduce British prestige. But these spectres which after all are but half fictitious, Dean Inge accepts in a fatalistic spirit, quite contrary to the usual jingoistic anathemas. And thus his description of French hostility and American indifference to the English carries conviction where the poetic bitterness of Kipling...