Lloyd Mifflin Sonnets Delights Firelight Club Audience
A Firelight Club gathering on a February Wednesday evening showcased Lloyd Mifflin’s sonnets as Dr. Porterfield extolled him as a premier American poet born in 1845. The discussion highlighted the sonnet form, praised Mifflin’s vocabulary and rhythm, and celebrated themes of great men, events, and pastoral life with reverence for poetry’s life and death.
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Firelight Club
Brooks Hall
Lloyd Miffin
Mr.Mifflin
Porterfeld
Matty
Mr. Miffin
Burke
Byron
Tennyson
Rembrandt
Michael Angelo
Mr. Mifflin
Poe
Lloyd “Mifflin
Alfred Noyes Lecture Praised For Poetic Insight
Alfred Noyes spoke at the academic chapel on Friday about optimism and the future of English poetry. He contrasted modern pessimism with constructive criticism and cited Kipling and Wordsworth, then read some of his own verses before the lecture was cut short.
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Alfred Noyes
Noses
Pearrs
England
America
Wordsworth
Turner
Sicily
Matthew Armold
Burns
Hraes
Bonny Doon
Tennyson
Browning
Stevenson
Kipling
Thomas Hardy
Neves
Miss Gildersleeve
Barnard
Miss