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...17th century. In point of style, he may already be classed with writers like Rupert Brooke, Harold Monro, and Walter de la Mare. With a little more intensity of mood, he might even suggest Ralph Hodgson, for he has at times a distinct trace of Hodgson's mystical vision. But the closest resemblance of all, in this particular poem, is to James Stephens, of whom there is a very good reminder in the touch, in the last stanza, about the "lone...
...great nations of the earth have entered into the unmeasurable war since the terrible days of August, 1914, save our great nation. All of them have in the war found increased strength, a new vision, a knowledge of their own unsolved ideals. There is no question now as to what England represents, or Germany, or France. In the strength of national unity for a single mighty purpose they have found themselves. The United States alone has rested with its ideals unrealized, without consciousness of its own goal...
...Diplomacy," John Reed's "War in Eastern Europe," Alan Seeger's "Poems," and Mr. Hunt's own "War Bread"--were written by members of the 1910 Monthly board, and that the 1909 board had its similar representation in Henry Sheahan's "Volunteer Poilu." It proceeds with a dramatized vision of the Monthly Sanctum in 1910, from which the spectator is transported in imagination to "somewhere." Here appears the Foreign Legion, and the countless legions of youth and manhood of a free world in every time, with a passionate impersonal voice reciting "for itself and all the young manhood...
...songs. Some of the reflections in the earlier part have a modern sound, and are not altogether of a piece with the rest. But we are doubtless to understand that the speaker at the outset is Robert Hillyer, who is only gradually merged, in the course of the vision, into William Shakespere...
...years the petty desires of our Congressmen for personal gain and political success have blocked all efforts by the few leaders of international vision to partially prepare this country against the dangers that are now so imminent. This very minute when the granting of power to the President is the only means by which this country can fulfill the recognized functions of a respected country, a few Senators are still consciously swayed by party influence and forget the nation. Let them serve as an example to the majority in the University. The present crisis demands a leader. The country...