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Modern Poets, Unlike Modern Novelists, Cannot Be Charged...

crime of over-production. True, there is a ceaseless flow of minor verse, but the singers who count are by no means prodigal of their wares. Mr. Stephen Phillips, so far as his......

" Gusto," Says Mr. Tilley In The Last Chapter Of

his book upon the French Renaissance, " implies strong emotion " ; and in this quality of " gusto," the first necessity of living criticism, Mr. Tilley is unhappily lacking. His......