In her column “Brutal Monsters,” Cate Burtner ’25 offers commentary on the literature of mental illness. I have always thought the term ‘sad girl poetry’ was condescending. ‘Sad’ feels overly ...
INVISIBLE LANDSCAPES — Edgar Lee Masters—Macmillan ($2). VACHEL LINDSAY—Edgar Lee Masters —Scribner ($3,). When in 1914 the first poems of Spoon River Anthology were published in Reedy’s Mirror, U. S.
The hell where youth and laughter go. A decorated veteran of the Western Front before he turned conscientious objector, Sassoon knew of what he spoke. Sprinkling passages of his poetry over somber ...