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Table D'Hote Poetry
Walton, Eda Lou | October 16, 1929 issue

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This article literally appraises several books. The books are: "The Book of Sonnet Sequences," by Houston Peterson; "Certain Poets of Importance," by Hattie Hecht Sloss; "Parnassits en Route," by Kenneth Horan; and "Twentieth Century Love Poems," by Caroline Miles Hill. No gourmet is pleased with table d'hote service and poets or true lovers of poetry dislike anthologies. But anthologies will continue to appear as long as the reading public believes that in order to be "cultured" one must feed on poetry. This public has little natural appetite for poetry. Some dictator, however--the chairman of the club, the teacher, or the anthologist--has decreed that poetry is the necessary food of the soul.

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BOOKS & reading; BOOK of Sonnet Sequences, The (Book); CERTAIN Poets of Importance (Book); PARNASSITS en Route (Book); 20TH Century Love Poems (Book); ANTHOLOGIES
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