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quite as important as the Imagist manifestoes and their related affirma–
tions in Chicago. There is little sense of the more than personal revolt,
both technical and substantial, against the post-Victorian twilight (the
authors' quotation marks for the "Poetic Renaissance" of the second
decade suggest a doubt that it existed). Certain Imagists' concern with
diction is recognized, but their enormous influence among non-Imagists
is not. The Imagists, the French Symbolists, and the seventeenth-century
metaphysicals are separately noted as acknowledged influences, but the
central concern which together, they argue, with uses of symbol and
metaphor in poetry disappears in the mixture: the metaphysical influ–
ence sru·inks to a parade of "bone, blood, and brain." As to the other,
while the authors impeccably remark that "questions of morality, reli–
gious and social being, and aesthetic responsibility continue to play an
increasingly larger part in the evaluation of twentieth-century American
poetry," that is not often evident in their own evaluations. For religious
devotionalism they have considerable respect, but philosophic arrange–
ments (as we have seen) they distrust. Public speech seems a fashionable
and fading joke; the implicit criticism of American society that moti–
vated much of the poetry as well as the material transportation of the
expatriates seems to be forgotten in the air of a jaunty extraterritorial
binge. It appears only glimmeringly that the elegiac note they delight
COURSES
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LITERATURE
at the YM..YWHA
Lexington at 92nd Street
PROF. KIMON FRIAR, director of the Poetry Center, will give the
following · courses during the 2nd semester, beginning February 1st:
Gerard Manley Hopkins: :15 Tuesdays, 7-8: 30 p.m.
Aspects of Duality in Literature and Art: 15 Tuesdays, 8:40-10:30.
The Writing of Poetry: 15 Thursdays, 7-8:30 p.m.
Younger Contemporary Poets: 15 Thursdays, 8:40-10:30 p.m.
POETRY READINGS: Twice a month poets are invited to read from
their work.
If
you wish to receive announcements, please fill out the
blank below and mail it to the Poetry Center.
LUDWIG LEWISOHN, prominent novelist and literary critic, will give a
series of 12 lectures on "The American Spirit in Literature."
MODERN EUROPEAN NOVEL- a series of 12 lectures on Kafka, Gide,
and Joyce. Prof. Wm. Troy will give 4 lectures on Joyce and 2 on Gide;
Philip Rahv will give 2 lectures on Kafka; other lecturers will include
Prof. Robert Richman.
DR. EPHRAIM FISCHOFF will give a series of 12 lectures on the Bible.
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