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Center of the Language
Tate, Allen | March 20, 1935 issue

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The article focuses on the book "A Winter and Other Poems," by Mark Van Doren. Let it be said at the beginning that Van Doren's chief defect as a poet seems to be his ease of expression. It is, the author thinks, justly suspect in this age; but to understand it one must remember the age of Dryden, when poetry was not scrutinized closely for its high moments; it was an objective art with the properties of rhyme and meter, and an expected level of diction as well. It was not a specific kind of experience. From the three earlier books of shorter poems the author could select twenty that are among the best contemporary examples of poetry.

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WINTER & Other Poems, A (Book); VAN Doren, Mark; BOOKS; POETRY; EXPERIENCE; RHYME
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