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...Seeger, Jr., '08--"Asleep...
...verse is notably good. Much of it is imaginative, and some of it has caught a larger diction than is usual in college poetry. Mr. Baker of the Yale Literary Magazine contributes a striking ballade; Mr. Hagedorn a fine monologue of New York street life; Mr. Seeger two sonnets on Don Juan which echo the music of an earlier time; Mr. Miller a moving threnody; Mr. Reed a poem not quite big enough for its language, but showing promise and some metrical skill. Here also is Mr. Pulsifer's Garrison Prize Poem, The Conquest of the Air, which would arrest...
...story does not amount to much, its attempts at cleverness being so forced that the reader is rather annoyed than amused. Of the two pieces of verse, Mr. Bynner's "Alma Mater" is too much condensed to seem like a simple expression of sincere emotion. Mr. Seeger's lines on the misfortune of being a poet are remarkably good, but, it is to be hoped, needlessly despairing...
...great value to all those who are wondering how they can combine their own work with that of the community in which they are to live. The two stories are short and not remarkable; the comedy is rather puerile, and the study in resurrection unconvincing. Of the verse, Mr. Seeger's translation from the Inferno is in many ways a remarkable production; the language is simple and dignified, and the verse is smooth, the dangers attending the use of rhymed couplets being for the most part skillfully avoided. Mr. Hunt's lyric is vigorous and sincere, but not much...
Pennsylvania.--G. A. Smith, 48, 49; C. M. Stubbs, 44, 48; J. F. R. Scott, 43, 48; R. D. Scott, 43, 47; H. R. Seeger, 44, 45. Totals...