.. .,. - - -_ _ lw w )'AGE~ SIR x THE MICHIGAN DAILY ! SUNDAY, MAR M, ; j, n2 SUND AY, IMARCH 11, X923 THsriE MICHIGAN DAILY- PAGD THI - I . - . - I - , I I . . . 1 . _ - 44- 1- ; , I . I I . - . - 11 . I I - . "B"O 4 K .N ENCORE IN AMERICAN' FINERS. By Johni V. A. Weaver. Alfred Knopf and Company. Reviewed by Lisle Rose work wmill have to fall back on the hackneyed -but unavoidable epithet promising". Certain it is that the poet's definite achievetnent,, to date, are not great, only potentially is he a CAN YOU AFFOR D IfT? Cant you afford. not to keep your-clothes in -the very. best of condition? The world is quirk to judge from, external ap- pearance. See that it makes "a favorable judgment =in your case. DETTLING, Tailor 1121 S. Univ. I hae lng ookd fr snicpoe writer of thei first rank. In order to able to interpret imaginatively the attain high place among contemporary cheap yet pathetic beauty of an am-; authors, lie must polish his verse more usement-park:. The theme should be carefully, destroy about a third of his at tempted; not because it is 'typically productions, and remen~ber that at Ar.cr cuan"--God preserve us from the present he is still travelling. fllacy that it is sonmehow more merit- orious to write in the ugliest of all GHETTO FLAMES OF dialects about the most uninteresting H P of all countries than to describe non- H P national subjects in classic l ngih- SALO3LE OF THE T'rEEMEN'[S. by but simply because an am-asenient- ?Anzia Yezierka. Bol nd llt Live. park wants interpreting; cries for it,i right. in fact. I have been prep~ared at any RevieweJ1 by Leo Jay Hlershidorfer time to pass the laurel to any poet When E dward J. O'Brien dedicated adequate to the t cik.' his "Best Short Stories of 1920" to I shall not pass the laurel to Mr. Anzia Yezierska, he first brought to Wleaver. He is a grievous disappoint- the notice of the wvor'l of letters a ment. I assumed 'from the blurb on Writer' brilliant and talented. Hle thie jakef -of his latest effort, "Finders, turned the spotlight of attention on More Poems in American," that ful- a Young woman who had been hidden illing my assuredly modlest expecta- in the darkness. of obscurity, a young tions was the easiest thing Mr. Weaver woman in whom burned the fire of could do; a mere trifle. Mr. Weaver, rettius, a w\riter who had masterpieces it seems, handles everything in the to- offer, but was handicapped by the indigenous-to-the-soil line; p~robes the barrier of oblivion, the greatest ob- soJul of everythhing American ; lays stacle for the uninitiated in the field of. hare-et cetera, ad infinitum. Uin- literature to surmount. fortunately, the gentleman who wrote O'Brien's dedication was in re- this blurb is a far greater imaginative cognition of Miss Yezierska's "Hungry- artist than Weaver himself. The poet, Hearts," a creation which won for the has not succeeded in. interpreting even author laurels of high honor and last- the soul of the aforesaid amusemuent- ing fame. If there are any who pa rk. doubted that O'Brien's judgment was Frankly this criticism is a ])it cheap,a in error, or that "Hungry Hearts" was and also ablit unjust; for no author merely a' flash of promise, let them ought to he judged by has a ' ce" 4.ers_ immediately secure a copy of Miss If wve forget their absurd eulogies, whe Yezierska's "Salome of the Tene- shall findl some of Weavers verse ments,'" If they are not pleasedl with rieritcrious enough. Hie IS less sup- this, thon I would bar them from all erfieial than most of his realistic c!on- libr aries and relegate them to solitary tell' j)orarics; he disellavs at times im_ eclifinernett on an island where no Conservatism R'ampant, 2 I.v INTELLIGENT AND INTERESTED Your bank should' be sound, accurate and efficient. But that is not enough. Banking service to be of the most use to you should be also intelligent and interested. That is what this bank tries to be. FARMERS & MECHANICS BANK 101-105 SO. MAIN 330 SO. STATE ST. OU R GREAT REMOVAL SALE OFFERS TO YOU ONE LOT OF _ ~Made up of Elgin and Walt'hamn movements w ith 20-ycar Gold-filled cases. All values from $25 to $30. All go at $17.50 rUs:=t a f~tsVr' ;c ee fs (4' iil.'anderer Seyfre 11 3 East ib erty Street Ii 11111111111111 111111111111111111111111 11 11$Ii 11111 1111111 111111'iE1111I liii ii! II i I! it 1 The campus seems to be experien-f LISLE ciftg a revival of °interest in literature,1 and especially in poetry. This re-jctoufrmailiseff u- °ival is the traditional healthy sign, erous devices: tone-color, alliteration, and ought, apparently, to obtain the asisonance, rhyme." What! has not traditional commendation. Bein~g aI conservative verse these aids? Yes; perverse conservative, however, I amd and_ more too. English poetry is par- unwilling to consider, the present re- ticularly rich, in that it possesses nascence entirely praiseworthy. It three distinct types of rhythm: accen- seems to me that our literary' liberals, tuoal," the basic type; syllabic, illuls- both in college and outside, are be- trated 'by those tetrameter lines which coming too fanatic in their fondness seem to us equivalent to pentameters for what is termed the "new poetry", merely because the nun:)eu of syl- and too scornful ot the old. For ex- sables is ten; and quantitative, as in ample, Mr. Rosinger and Mr'. Harlan, (,satill. When to these are added not who have recently presented in Chines only tone-color, rhyme, assonance, al- both argument for and samples of {literation, and stanzaic pattern, but this new poetry, fail utterly to re- also double c'adence, conservative cognize either the merits of our class- poetr~y becomes an instrument o~f pow- ics or the faults ( i contemporary er and sublimity far surpassing the radica~l verse. Sincel bel:eve that the ti itlnso eylbq conservative should ?°eheard. l wishthintirkyngof corsibre ha now to set forth the < t 11:ivt the foru:, as literary rebels have always new poetry in gene:.A. as for -"a~lly, been quick to proclaim. New move- and as fairly, as 1 cd l.mnut are usually justified b h That case I believe to -° -°:ng, if assertien that they bring to art not anl by "new p~oetrv" we ii:i 2i what the original form, perhaps, hut a fresh. radicals m1eanI, what 1> 2' imself spirit. So our friends thle radicals evidently m.eant. Though he neglect- ;make muchel of the new realms which ed(1- -foutuna'~ely, pecrhaps, in view oftlthey *have ontsned to )oetry, of the his lameneltable failure to define poetry hitherto-untouched subjects which itself -to state explicitly his tuseo f they are dealing with, Rosinger, for t his im~portant term, we all know I ins.an(ce, notes with elation that poet- pretty well what it includes. The new ry has gone to' the humnble, and founds poetry is thotight to differ from the pure beauty there. We conservatives mere conser1vative in form, in subject- have a faint rec'ollection that some- matter, andl in the author's general1 what the slame procedure Was follow- attitude. Conservatives hold that the eed a century ago :by C'rabbe and change b<:,, been less than the radicals Bloomfield, not to mention Words- as pert, and that whatever real change worth. That latei' writers had :got has occurred is of little .value. I hope! away from it, and needed. recalling, is to show that in technique modernh not to denied ; but moderns cannot verse is a. step) backward; that in claim as th eir owns a tendency at least choice and range of subject it is at one hundred years old. least no advance; that in the attitude. "Yea,"'-we are told, "but poetry now- or theory of life, expressed,. it- is a re- adays f"~ going further than such an- versien to the childish or barbarous.'- cients dared go; it, is treating lite These three charges 'onistitute a, se- fearlessly, witholding nothing."' And rious indietinent of the new i1 Ove- I the rebel snmiles as if lie had proved mnent ; let us see if they can be provedl.4 his point, by asserting that complete The firs;t seems self-evident. Free freedioml is the one thing needful in verse, in form the distinguishing niarkii art. But is it ? Art implies selection; of radical eioetrv, represents deliber- ; not every thiei(le dserves treating. aite surrendler o1 a. rich, exlressive ;Th e radii ,al usually takes refuge in an metrneal ven in ret urn for' a vague apdpeaI to the ''seienthfle s 1i,'' 7 ''freedom of ()Il1'' N-hic(11i S i!su1 1ily ,hwle I'ein usan attenipt to express re laziness. V ' il nia i B is g0I, (, x1)iQC 2 o(,vimlpers'onlly, oje~tivel y. unable 10eudu P0 lit v fl(:ecemial".' h1 aid By1 V 'v hiig PapheI on'ellft c'ii our dl pritent i'' '' I} (oi lit tue(ir d(iat. I (I , n 'Ios ar(1in g thlen', th e r' l'('Ii ' ?l i r 1 l .1 o01 lo:se t Iii

principles of arit, as of life in general, they must observe. In truth, the "general rejection of I convention" so noisily proclaimed by t:the radicals, and so dreaded by timid conservatives, turns otut to be chiefly Ean assault on unimportant and ephiem- feral follies which the best conserva- FIRST * ORGANIZED 1863 ~ ::OLDEST BANK IN ANN ARBOR :: OLDEST NATIONAL BANK IN MICHIGAN ignatui. in nJiliuslght ; he ci 'lie 3an o-1.cas'ional glimpise of th1e -D('OuIV anid trag~ed y tabe founid in comitoti ex- isteee. More iniplorta ut still, he knowvs l ; ' O )t' l]t 4(111-tt1 'god-N tru"ILfuiIV, aviding both sell iiilentalii2=,ra ad( O(iw ?ticisuu. 'm example, the ethics. of hsworking- L~t'la aro the 'ethics rca Iliv held b) v I awer cl rsiot th e tiiic foisted ontthe.- b1) Ilhy- 1ash author"s and optillm it cpreach- em's4. The heroina of''" !'it iat' con- cerns hr l ot. at all withii (onven- tion.:1labels. here ii1lies5 the mtrth, anld the iillod, of hetr stoury. S'