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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1931
Page
3
A critical look at modern poetry arguing that the revolt against classical codes elevates ego over emotion. The essay critiques Ezra Pound and D. H. Lawrence, labeling Pound’s work as shallow and self important while praising authentic connection to emotion as the source of true poetry.
The piece analyzes Lawrence as intensely individual and provocative, Maxwell Bodenheim as an ego driven poet of grotesque wit, and George Sylvester Viereck as a sincere yet egotistical poet who flaunts emotion. It contrasts radical self expression with genuine emotion and the elusive pursuit of artistic fame.
A critical review of George Sylvester Viereck's My Flesh and Blood, highlighting its lyric autobiography of sexual and artistic development. The piece notes Viereck's candor and paradoxes, his influences Wilde Heine Baudelaire Swinburne, and praises the sincerity of his verse and accompanying explanations. The sample poem Resurrection is quoted as evidence of revived desire.
A reflective verse fragment shows a young reporter facing arrest and parole, pleading for honesty after a night in jail. The speaker notes a wife and kids and vows to go straight, while a companion asks if the reporter will cooperate. The piece ends with a name, John Mebeane.
A critical review finds the amateur tone clear in Lancaster and Other Poems. The pieces exhibit flawless rhythm but lack life and emotional depth, tending toward sentimental or forceful yet shallow verses about nature and quiet subjects.
Edna St. Vincent Millay collects fifty two sonnets in Fatal Interview. Written in Shakespearean form the poems explore first love with delicate lyricism and vivid color. The reviewer praises the work as one of the finest poetry books of the year.
An excerpt quotes the opening stanza of a poem titled The Turkey's Stolen Nest showing typical verse flaws. The lines describe a hen moving unseen beyond orchard willows brook and fields of rye and clover as she stealthily proceeds.
English detective novelist George Goodchild has a new novel The Emperor of Hallelujah Island on Houghton Mifflin's May list. Film rights for The Splendid Crime have been acquired by RKO and early production is anticipated.
In accessible language Mr Cole surveys major financial controversies of today. The book covers topics such as Gold, The Government and the Unemployed, Cheaper Money, Rationalisation and Employment.
Anne Douglass Sedgwick novel Dark Hester dramatized by Walter Ferris and staged in London on April 27 featuring Sybil Thorndike Jean Forbes Robertson Alan Napier and Maurice Evans in an all star cast.
ABlocks of critique on Molten Amber by James H. M. Campbell and Gold Fish Geese and Kinka roos by Blanche Shar am, highlighting their color infused lines and experimental forms. Campbell’s work shows good technique with occasional overmellow tones and frequent lotus imagery while the second collection displays whimsical wit and free verse pieces deemed strongest by the reviewer.
The review praises Lindley Williams Hubbell's The Tracing of a Portal for its stately beauty and rhythmic variety. It notes initial heaviness, later rich color, and strong New York imagery calling the city an iron lily, with love poems marked by courage and fate. Hubbard's verse is described as towering above mediocrity.
Review of Dreamers on Horseback by Earle Wilson Baker from The Southwest Press praises the collection for its intense lyricism and refined phrasing. It notes influences from Keats and Moody, highlights a three line poem Some Fellow Poets, and mentions Baker's Chicago connection and Texas residence with a teaching role at Stephen F. Austin Teachers' College.
Alice Grant Rosman's new novel The Sixth Journey is set for June 26 release by Minton Balch. The author has prior best sellers The Widow 1928 Visitors to Hugo 1929 and The Young Secret 1930. publishers expect another hit.
Doris Peel author of Children of the Wind and Five on Parade leaves for a summer in England after selling four short stories. When editors demand changes she uses a nom de plume instead of arguing, a strategy that has served her well. Five on Parade, her second novel, has just appeared in England from Harrap.
John K. Winkler announces that Morgan the Magnificent, a months long best seller in this country, will be translated into French. The move signals expanding international interest in the title.
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