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The Poetry of a Novelist
Walton, Eda Lou | July 23, 1930 issue

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The article critically appraises the book "The Winter Alone," by Evelyn Scott. "The Winter Alone" is the poetry of a novelist, one of the best of American novelists. The book is filled with individualistic observations upon life, with startling characters given in a sentence, with intricate emotional situations, with vivid backgrounds. The poet's outlook is at one and the same time mystic and intellectual. And yet, although the intention of many of the poems is lyric, there is a kind of looseness in rhythm and diffuseness in imagery which gives the reader the impression that many of these poems are notes for longer poems rather than the fused immediate statements of lyrics.

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BOOKS & reading; WINTER Alone, The (Book); SCOTT, Evelyn; POETRY; CHARACTERS & characteristics in literature
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