Songs for a Little House
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Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley (1890-1957) was an American journalist, poet, and novelist. Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, he was the son of mathematics professor Frank Morley and violinist Lillian Janet Bird. In 1900, Christopher moved with his parents to Baltimore, returning to Pennsylvania in 1906 to attend Haverford College. Upon graduating as valedictorian in 1910, he went to Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship to study modern history. While in England, he published The Eighth Sin (1912), a volume of poems. After three years, he moved to New York, found work as a publicist and publisher’s reader at Doubleday, and married Helen Booth Fairchild. After moving his family to Philadelphia, Morley worked as an editor for Ladies’ Home Journal and then as a reporter for the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger. In 1920, Morley moved one final time to Roslyn Estates in Nassau County, Long Island, commuting to the city for work as an editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. A gifted humorist, poet, and storyteller, Morley wrote over one hundred novels and collections of essays and poetry in his lifetime. Kitty Foyle (1939), a controversial novel exploring the intersection of class and marriage, was adapted into a 1940 film starring Ginger Rogers, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Songs for a Little House is Christopher Morley’s second collection of poetry. The reading copy that I used for this review was one in the library collections of the University of California that had been digitized for Google Books. I downloaded it at no cost to me. I thought that I might be violating some sacred trust between myself and used book dealers by succumbing to the temptation, but I do own a copy of the book and was loath to buy another. The copy I own was a little fragile and I couldn’t bring myself to carry it around.Morley wrote poetry to sing the praises of aspects of life that he adored. In Little House he dabbles in the domestic life and comes down firmly in favor of city life over rural. My experience in reading poetry is lacking, but my prejudice is that poetry resides more in the pastoral countryside than in urban cacophony. Morley loved the latter. Also characteristic of Morley’s poetry was that he gave his sense of humor free reign. Thus we have a section in Little House that groups together several views on hay fever which is titled “Hay fever and other literary pollen.” Here we are treated to Morley writing in the style of authors such as Rudyard Kipling, Amy Lowell, and Edgar Lee Masters. I like the last one, which clearly recalls for me the Spoon River Anthology.There is another section where Kit, (mind if I call him “Kit”?) practices the sonnet form. I like the discipline implicit in taming your perceptions and ideas so that they organize into a traditional structure. It compels the writer to search not only for beautiful words to express himself, but also the right kind of words to satisfy the demands of the form. The final characteristic that I will mention in Morley’s writing in general, and in this book in particular, is his propensity for autobiography. Take the following concluding couplet from “Ars Dura” as an example:And yet, such joy does in that craft abidehe greats the paper as the groom the bride. That is a lovely and compelling metaphor in describing the poet or writer.
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Title: Songs for a Little House
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SONGS FOR A LITTLE HOUSE
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