THE BRIGHT DOOMJohn Hall WheelockScribner ($2). Poet Wheelock has been so often patted for his "ecstasy," that now he writes such vague, silly, categories as this:
There are three tremblings sweet
to think upon:
The trembling of a poplar-leaf in
the wind,
The trembling of a woman in the
moment of love
And the trembling of the stars. . . .
This mediocre quatrain would be unfairly quoted without also four of his more typical sadly cadenced verses:
My heart is a dark forest where no
voice is heard,
Nor sound of foot by day or night
nor echo, borne
Down the long aisles and shadowy
arches, of...