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Thin Emotion

Walton, Eda Lou | June 24, 1931 issue

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The article presents information about the book "Naked Heel," by Leonora Speyer. Speyer has fair taste, an accurate sense of rhythm, a sense of the proper subject matter for poetry, but her emotion is thin, and she depends entirely upon emotion, never upon intellect. Again and again in her new book of verse she uses a conceit but has not the intellectual nicety of selection or the intensity to make it important. Speyer is at her best in telling stories, where the material itself is fanciful and humorous.

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NAKED Heel (Book); SPEYER, Leonora; POETRY; FICTION; LITERATURE; INTELLECT
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