Friday, July 3, 1931 TO
Hervey Allen, 1
Exhibits Ve
(Continued from page one)
poi tant exponents of literature, tc
the many who think they can write
poetiy Everyone connected witl
wxiting has at some time ventured
into verse,’Mr. Allen believes. He
explains this turning to poetry
for expression by the fact that when
people become emotional their feel
ings have the same rhythmical quality
ns poetry.
“Such poetry is purely sentimental,
since it has emotion without reason
Most of it is pretty bad," the lecturer
says, dismissing the subject.
Amciican thinking becomes the
subject for discussion. Although
Americans point to the achievements
of their great men as results of orig
inal thinking, these scientists and in
ventors, as a matter of fact, merely
adopted the ideas of others to prac
tical use, Mr. Allen points out.
“This inability to think is a char
acteristic of Americans,” the genial
visitor declares “Wo credit many
people with ideas that they adopted
directly from the work of predeces
sors. In this way the control of elec
tricity and the first airplanes were
made possible”
Poetic thinking is not necessarily
held down to the limits set by envir
onment, he thinks. Great poets must
transcend ordinary folks in order to
be great. Poetry and democracy are
not companions.
In one sentence Mr. Allen points
out why most people fail m writing
poetry. They consider it as an emo
tional outburst, set down in a short
interval. In reality, poetry is the
compression of many ideas into few
words. Its development includes
drafting and redrafting lines and
words, the speaker from Bermuda
explains.
“There is enough thought in Rob
ert Frost’s “Mending Wall” to write
five or six long books,” he says, lay
ing aside the last cigarette on an ash
tray that is already over-crowded
Peihaps the talk turns once more to
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ber, and continue their investigation
«uid research until next June.
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Poetry Critic,
rsatility in Life
literary friends of whom Mr. Allen
talks—of Vachel Lindsay, or Jovaph
Hergesluemer. Peihaps it turns to
Bermuda, or to ndvoilising, m mili
tary training. If >ou meet Heivey
Allen as we did, it’s suie to be inter
esting
Although he is lncomcnn speaking
of his own life, Mr Allen has had a
wide range of expenonces. A native
if Pennsylvania, he lived near Pitts
burgh until entering the Naval Acad
emy Close association with the li
brary there convinced him that he
should turn to some form of w l iting.
Hu, early experience in writing in
cludes an advertising position in
Pittsburgh. In 191 G he turned again
to military service, going to the Mex
ican border, serving with the draft
police, and going abroad as soon as
the United States entered the war
Hts description of conditions theie in
diary form constitutes one of the fust
of war books, “Tovvaids the Flame.”
Later, he served foi a short time
as a teacher in Charleston, and snee
has been engaged for regular lectuic
senes at Columbia and Vassar. Fust
of all, however, Mr. Allen i a a poet
Secondarily, he is a cutic of poetry,
and an author of bioguipliics. His
critical writing has appealed in the
New Yoik Tubune and thj Nevv'Yoik
Times book levicws, and in various
magazines.
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