_The List of ten books printed above and the following fifteen
titles:_--
* _In Deep Places. By Amelia Josephine Burr._ (Doran: $1.00 net.) Fine
dramatic monologues and narrative poems, which represent a great advance
over Miss Burr’s previous book. _Jehane_ is a worthy sequel to _The
Haystack in the Floods_ by William Morris. _Allah is With the Patient_
and other narrative poems are related in a blank verse of firm yet
varied texture. Miss Burr’s dramatic imagination interprets Italy and
England in human terms, and travel has afforded her lyric opportunities
to which she has responded sensitively and well. With this volume Miss
Burr has come to stay.
* _The Little King. By Witter Bynner._ (Kennerley: $.60 net.) A stark
one-act play in verse of swift sure dramatic nerve about the little son
of Marie Antoinette. With great economy of material and vivid historic
imagination, Mr. Bynner has made _The Little King_ human and poignant in
his brief little tragedy.
* _Earth Deities, and Other Rhythmic Masques. By Bliss Carman and Mary
Perry King._ (Kennerley: $1.50 net.) Four masques of earth with Mr.
Carman’s old familiar lyric quality directed into fresh and living
channels. Each of them would afford a rare delight to an audience,
particularly if accompanied by the rhythmic dances which have been
designed for them by Mary Perry King.
* _Poetical Works. By Edward Dowden. In two volumes._ (Dutton: $4.00
net.) A permanent and integral part of English literature. It is
gratifying to find tardy justice done at last to the merits of the late
Professor Dowden as a poet. Those who care for the work of Mr. Woodberry
will find the same qualities in Dowden’s poetry, but in a larger and
more authoritative voice. Moreover, he is one of the great nineteenth
century sonneteers. His many hymns to intellectual beauty have not an
undistinguished line in them, and as a lyric poet his singing quality is
infectious. This is the first edition of his poems since 1876, and
contains many which have never been collected before. The second volume
is a pleasant translation of Goethe’s, _The West Eastern Divan_. It will
not greatly interest admirers of Prof. Dowden’s work, and should be sold
separately.
* _Borderlands and Thoroughfares. By Wilfrid Wilson Gibson._
(Macmillan: $1.25 net.) Mr. Gibson’s fourth volume in three years.
Though not equal to his earlier books, it will well repay the lover of
poetry. The first section, entitled _Borderlands_ consists of three
dramatic dialogues in free verse which aim with some success to be
simple, sensuous, and passionate. _Hoops_ is one of Mr. Gibson’s most
satisfactory poems. The second section, entitled _Thoroughfares_
comprises shorter poems, many of which are dramatic monologues, and of
these _Solway Ford_ and _The Gorse_ represent Mr. Gibson’s best. As we
have said elsewhere, Mr. Gibson’s art “satisfies our æsthetic emotions
and fulfils our social needs.”
* _Aroun’ the Boreens: A Little Book of Celtic Verse. By Agnes I.
Hanrahan._ (Badger: $1.00 net.) A slight volume of Irish songs equal to
the very best by Eva Gore-Booth or Mrs. Hinkson, and tipped with a more
delicate art. The volume should be on every shelf beside Moira O’Neill’s
_Songs of the Glens of Antrim_.
* _The Cry of Youth. By Harry Kemp._ (Kennerley: $1.25 net.) Terse
ringing ballads of modern life with much of Buchanan’s quality and keen
technique. Despite the propagandist note, which is less insistent than
in most poetry of a socialistic tendency, Mr. Kemp has succeeded with
some quiet reserve in making the reader feel the pity of lonely outcast
life, and in expressing his philosophy in genuine poetry. The sincerity
of his work is unquestionable, and the volume merits a critical
attention on its merits which we should be anxious to assist. _The Cry
of Youth_ is not written solely for an audience of poets and critics. It
is genuine poetry of cruelly naked emotion borne unflinchingly.
* _Songs of the Dead End. By Patrick MacGill._ (Kennerley: $1.25 net.)
Poetry of labor and poetry without a brief in about equal measure.
Though the former is fine, Mr. MacGill’s best work is to be found in the
latter. The poet has been a navvy, a miner, a switchman, a car-coupler,
a tramp, and a plate-layer, and out of grinding poverty and toil his
poetry has emerged. There is danger of a wrong emphasis on his social
poetry. It is good, but not better than that of several others. The less
premeditated lyrics will give the greatest pleasure to the reader, and
to many of them one will turn again and again.
* _Philip the King, and Other Poems. By John Masefield._ (Macmillan:
$1.25 net.) A one-act play in verse which is competent but would not be
distinctive were it not for a superb ballad of the Armada, which
challenges comparison with Drayton. Four other poems of strong beauty
which redeem the rest of the volume, and make it necessary to poetry
lovers. The notable war-poem entitled _August, 1914_, is included.
* _The Wine-Press: A Tale of War. By Alfred Noyes._ (Stokes: $.60 net.)
A tale of the horror of war and its blind futility, whose scene is laid
in the Balkans. It is told with all of Mr. Noyes’s art and its awful
lesson should be particularly timely in the midst of the present
struggle. The poem is a hymn to liberty passionately voiced, and brings
death and suffering home in relentless poetry.
* _Songs of Labor, and Other Poems. By Morris Rosenfeld. Translated
from the Yiddish by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank._ (Badger: $.75
net.) An excellent translation of the poems of an American Yiddish poet
of poignant beauty, whose work has hitherto not been accessible to
English readers except in an incomplete prose version. The present
translation includes many poems now published for the first time, and is
adorned with two remarkable illustrations in black and white which
reveal new possibilities in line. A volume which deserves to go through
many editions.
* _Poems. By Clinton Scollard._ (Houghton-Mifflin: $1.25 net.) A
selection of Mr. Scollard’s best poems from his numerous volumes. It
should serve to define his place in American poetry, which is beside Mr.
Cawein. Delicate fancy and a love of nature which is not vague are
united to an opulence of expression which has not always done Mr.
Scollard service, but which in almost every poem in this volume results
in giving the pleasure of fine poetic sensation to the discriminating
reader.
_Songs and Sonnets for England in War Time._ (Lane: $.75 net.) A
collection of the best poems by English poets inspired by the war,
issued for the benefit of the Prince of Wales Fund. The total profits of
the volume are turned over to this fund for relief work, and the
purchaser will not only procure a volume whose significance will be more
and more realised as time passes, but will be contributing in small
measure to this charitable work.
* _Challenge. By Louis Untermeyer._ (Century Co.: $1.00 net) One of the
most significant new volumes of the year. With much of Shelley’s social
enthusiasm and a genuine inspiration, he sings the strength and weakness
of our democracy with the eagerness of youth. This is a volume whose
significance will grow as the years go by, and it should be associated
with Mr. Oppenheim’s new volume on which comment will be found
elsewhere. Although democracy is the substance of his song, yet the
feeling for beauty’s essence which here finds lyrical expression is the
most substantially satisfying quality of his work.
III. SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF SIGNIFICANT BOOKS OF POETRY FOR A LARGE
LIBRARY
* _Earth Triumphant, and Other Tales in Verse. By Conrad Aiken._
(Macmillan: $1.25 net.) Three narrative poems of distinction, followed
by shorter poems interpreting the philosophy of youth. They suggest
comparison with the longer poems of John Masefield, but have a firm
independent technique of their own. With genuine beauty they relate
tales which reveal the heart of modern life in various phases of youth,
and contain a reading of earth which differs in essentials from that of
Meredith. The volume deserves a wider audience than the usual public
which cares for poetry. It has a message which every American will
appreciate, and if it helps to spread an interest in poetry among new
circles of readers, it will only be fulfilling its mission. It is a
distinguished first book of verse.
_Poems. By Walter Conrad Arensberg._ (Houghton-Mifflin: $1.00 net.) The
most artistic volume of poetry this year in its technique. Aloofness,
controlled emotion, conscious art, are the characteristics of his
poetry. Despite an occasional _bizarrerie_, despite echoes of Verlaine
and Laforgue, Mr. Arensberg is a classicist. His technique is faultless.
Each line is not only exquisite in itself, but it is perfectly
coördinated with every other line. If these poems leave the reader cold,
they offer an abundant intellectual compensation for the “thrills” of
other poets. The special qualities of his verse are unique in American
poetry, and will surely appeal to a discriminating circle, though his
work is unlikely to become popular.
_The Minor Poems of Joseph Beaumont. Edited by Eloise Robinson._
(Houghton-Mifflin: $5.00 net.) An authoritative text of Joseph
Beaumont’s minor poems edited from a manuscript in the possession of
Professor George Herbert Palmer. The poems are preceded by a critical
introduction and followed by a brief but careful textual apparatus.
While Beaumont was a very minor poet, the fact remains that he was a
significant member of the group of metaphysical poets of whom Vaughan
was the greatest, and this volume must take its place in any collection
of English poetry which claims to be even reasonably complete.
_The Falconer of God, and Other Poems. By William Rose Benét._ (Yale
University Press: $1.25 net.) Mr. Benét’s second collection marks an
advance in facility combined with a greater restraint and reticence. It
includes many fine ballads, and several dramatic soliloquies only
surpassed this year by those in Miss Burr’s new volume. Although there
is much which is experimental in the book, it is successful experiment,
and Mr. Benét’s range of expression is continually broadening.
* _Auguries. By Laurence Binyon._ (Lane: $1.00 net.) One of the most
satisfying collections of verse of a noteworthy poet who is too little
known and appreciated in this country. Its grave classical beauty will
never assure it popularity, but at its best it is worthy to stand beside
Mr. Bridges, and it contains no poem that is not excellent. _Ferry
Hinksey_ is a lyric which no future anthologist can overlook. Next to
Mr. Arensberg’s poems, the most satisfying new volume artistically of
the year. It demands silence and complete surrender.
_Broad-Sheet Ballads. With An Introduction by Padraic Colum._ (Norman,
Remington: $.75 net.) A narrow, but good, selection of the best of the
Broad-Sheet Ballads which occupy so definite a place in Irish poetry.
These waifs and strays have been gathered previously in various
collections, but never before in a volume calculated to appeal to the
general public. An introduction telling the story of this form of art
and the characteristics of its audiences and appeal to them is prefixed.
* _Syrinx: Pastels of Hellas. By Mitchell S. Buck._ (Claire-Marie:
$1.25 net.) A volume of prose poems of reticent Pagan art, suggestive of
the best work of Pierre Louys. Unique in American poetry, and really
beautiful.
_In the High Hills. By Maxwell Struthers Burt._ (Houghton-Mifflin: $1.25
net.) The verse in this volume is of a kind that has eminent qualities
without eminent distinction. The earnestness and sincerity of Mr. Burt’s
poetic moods give to his poetry those sound qualities which at least
compel attention, if they do not excite the emotions. The elements of
poetry are not fused with imaginative heat in his work, and hence it
lacks magic, but it reflects the gentlemanly feeling of a lover of
poetry in verse which demands respect.
_The Sun-Thief, and Other Poems. By Rhys Carpenter._ (Oxford University
Press: $1.75 net.) Competent academic verse on classical models,
including a new version of the Prometheus legend.
_The Poet and Nature: What He Saw and What He Heard. By Madison Cawein._
(John P. Morton & Co.: Louisville, Kentucky. $1.50.) A volume of prose
and verse designed to encourage a love of poetry in children. The first
half of the volume is in the form of a juvenile story with previously
published lyrics of Mr. Cawein interspersed as examples of poetic
beauty: the second half of the volume consists of hitherto uncollected
poems of nature by Mr. Cawein now gathered together under the title of
_The Morning Road_. This part of the volume should give especial
pleasure to Mr. Cawein’s readers.
_Green Days and Blue Days. By Patrick R. Chalmers._ (Norman, Remington:
$1.00 net.) A pleasant volume of light verse by a contributor to
_Punch_. The verses do not pretend to be more than agreeable
diversions, and reflect the lighter moods of life happily and in
delicate numbers.
_At the Shrine, and Other Poems. By George Herbert Clarke._ (Stewart and
Kidd: $1.25 net.) A pleasant unassuming collection of somewhat academic
verse reflecting a life of scholarly leisure. The closing section of
letters in verse to departed novelists is particularly happy, recalling
at no great distance the similar work of Austin Dobson.
* _Path Flower. By Olive Tilford Dargan._ (Scribner: $1.25 net.) With
this volume of lyrical poems Olive Tilford Dargan definitely takes her
place as one of our foremost younger poets. With much of Francis
Thompson’s vision of an overarching heaven and a shadowed earth, and
also much of Thompson’s mannerism, she is herself in the best of these
poems, in which she treats high themes with high artistic fervor. Her
feeling for landscape is English in its delicacy, and she has
interpreted the influence of nature on human life and its incidence with
clear insight and sympathy. No one will deny Mrs. Dargan’s poetic
inspiration or the refinement of her vision.
_Florence on a Certain Night, and Other Poems. By Coningsby Dawson._
(Holt: $1.25 net.) A volume of undistinguished literary verse by a
distinguished novelist.
* _America and Other Poems. By W. J. Dawson._ (Lane: $1.25 net.) The
expression of an ideal America as seen by one with an alien tradition.
The volume includes several fine ballad narratives, notably “The Kiss,”
“Salome,” and the swift sure rhythmic “Last Ride of the Sheik Abdullah;”
above all, “Blake’s Homecoming,” a member of the royal line of English
ballads. In addition to competent lyrics on various themes, special
attention should be called to the poems of childhood and the delicately
imagined meditative poems of religious feeling. So many religious poems
rely wholly on a good intention, “more fit to pave Hell than cause
rejoicing in Heaven,” as a French critic says, that exceptions should be
noted. The volume marks an appreciable advance over Dr. Dawson’s
previous collections.
_A Pageant of the Thirteenth Century for the Seven Hundredth Anniversary
of Roger Bacon. The Text by John Erskine._ (Columbia University Press.)
A pageant reflecting the culture and endeavor of the thirteenth century
in every field. The text is in verse of fine texture and imaginative
expression by Professor Erskine of Columbia University. While the
pageant itself has been deferred because of the war, it is still
possible to enjoy the text, and to look forward to the pageant’s
representation in the near future.
_Lux Juventutis: A Book of Verse. By Katharine A. Esdaile._
(Houghton-Mifflin: $1.25 net.) The first volume of a young English poet
who shows considerable promise. It is characterised by classical
restraint and a fine feeling for form, and does not lack singing
quality.
* _Sonnets from the Patagonian. By Donald Evans._ (Claire-Marie: $1.25
net.) Eighteen impressionistic sonnets of exotic workmanship, suggesting
the fantasy of Laforgue, but more extremely composed in disembodied
words. They rely on tone color for much of their effect, and are bizarre
to the point of irony. However, they grow on the reader as he becomes
familiar with them, and their consummate art is unquestionable.
* _Sonnets of a Portrait-Painter. By Arthur Davison Ficke._ (Kennerley:
$1.00 net.) A sequence of fifty-seven sonnets in an undeservedly
neglected form, which do not recall too definitely Meredith’s _Modern
Love_. They are extremely subtle and their intellectual content is very
closely woven, so that they will prove difficult reading, but they repay
careful study, and in many sonnets the lyric impulse has happily
overmastered the poet completely. A collection which is worthy of
several readings.
* _Arrows in the Gale. By Arturo Giovannitti._ (Hillacre Bookhouse,
Riverside, Connecticut: $1.25 net.) One of the more important volumes of
new verse this year. A passionate voicing of social injustice in
imaginative strophes, which introduce a new poetic form with
considerable art. _The Cage_, when printed in the Atlantic Monthly, last
year, was called the most significant poem published in that periodical
since Moody’s _Ode in Time of Hesitation_. The volume claims a hearing
as fine poetry rather than as an expression of Syndicalism. There is an
appreciative introduction by Helen Keller which is good criticism.
* _My Lady’s Book. By Gerald Gould._ (Kennerley: $1.00 net.) Twenty
lyrics of pure song quality which are almost faultless in their
perfection, though in a minor key. A volume to afford pure delight by
its unaffected lyric quality.
_Poems. By Katharine Howard._ (Sherman, French: $1.00 net.) Minor verse
in _vers libre_, which is frequently pleasing and always individual. It
is the expression of a whimsical personality who wears her singing robes
lightly, and who is most successful in verse of macabre suggestion.
* _Des Imagistes: An Anthology._ (Boni: $1.00.) The best collection of
“imagiste” poetry, in which the work of Ford Madox Hueffer, F. S. Flint,
Amy Lowell, and others is represented. There are many poems in the
volume which will give pleasure, but as a collection it is uneven and
rather tenuous. The work of F. S. Flint which it contains justifies the
volume’s purchase.
_The Thresher’s Wife. By Harry Kemp._ (Boni: $.40 net.) A narrative poem
well told in the manner of Masefield, whose influence upon it has been
great.
* _Trees, and Other Poems. By Joyce Kilmer._ (Doran: $1.00 net.) The
spirit of youth and grave faith expressed in lyric numbers. This slight
little book defines a personality of poetic interest. The book shows
less alien influence than most recent American poetry, and is quite
individual in its affirmations. Though unassuming, the book will not
meet with just treatment unless we recognize the fine lyric
accomplishment of such poems as _Trees_ and _Martin_. Is this volume the
prelude of a little Catholic Renaissance in American poetry?
* _The Shadow of Ætna. By Louie V. Ledoux._ (Putnam: $1.00 net.)
Severely chaste poetry on classical models of distinguished beauty. They
reveal fine intellectual feeling that recalls Shelley in its intensity
and Arnold in its disciplined reticence. They have all the warmth of
life seen against an eternal background, and a passionate message which
cannot go unheeded.
* _The Sharing. By Agnes Lee._ (Sherman, French: $1.00 net.) Agnes
Lee’s new book has all her familiar qualities, but in addition it
presents a new criticism of life which reveals a feeling for human
values akin in many respects to that of Browning. In its brevity and
search for the polished word, it suggests the sculptor’s art, and many
of these poems would have pleased Landor for their freight of suggestion
and elemental simplicity.
* _Sword Blades and Poppy Seed. By Amy Lowell._ (Macmillan: $1.25 net.)
A volume, not only of interesting experiment in _vers libre_ and exotic
rhythms, but of notable accomplishment in poetry. Though associated
with the “imagiste” school of English poetry, Miss Lowell’s talent is
independent of it, and in her narrative and lyric poems alike one feels
an artistic firmness and restraint which results in clear vision clearly
sung. Best of all, this “imagiste” poetry is healthy and able to fight
for its existence. In so far as it is derivative from French influences
it adds a new note to English verse, and reveals a subtle use of free
cadenced rhythms which is fully responsive to the mood and feeling of
the poem. Far more genuine and spontaneous than Miss Lowell’s first
volume.
_The Passing Singer and Other Poems. By Samuel Henry Marcus._ (Stratford
Pub. Co.: $1.00 net.) A modest first volume which is likely to receive
less attention than it deserves. Mr. Marcus has not yet found himself in
poetry, but he sings the present condition of humanity sincerely and
passionately. When he sings it simply, he will be more satisfying, but
this volume will give pleasure to any one who really cares for poetry.
* _Poems. By Edward Sandford Martin._ (Scribner: $1.50 net.) The
collected verse of the Editor of _Life_. Mellow Horatian philosophy and
wit not yet frost-bitten by a man whom Dr. Johnson would have pronounced
clubbable and with whom Boswells must feel uncomfortable.
_You and I. By Harriet Monroe._ (Macmillan: $1.25 net.) A bulky volume
of verse by the editor of _Poetry: A Magazine Of Verse_. In it the
social note is voiced strongly, and expression is given to many phases
of modern effort, but its intellectual content rather overshadows its
lyric quality.
* _The Sea is Kind. By T. Sturge Moore._ (Houghton-Mifflin: $1.50 net.)
This is the first collection issued in America of the poems of an
English craftsman of great distinction and power, whose chief weakness
is an over-proportion of intellectual substance. He lacks the glow of
beauty, and perhaps of beauty’s realization, but his work is literary
craftsmanship of the highest order, and his metrical experiments are
almost as significant as those of Mr. Bridges. Altogether the artistic
product of a richly stored mind without aspiration or imaginative
vision.
* _Saloon Sonnets: With Sunday Flutings. By Allen Norton._
(Claire-Marie: $1.25 net.) A volume less bizarre than its title implies.
The sonnets bear evidence of _ueberkultur_, but occasionally surprise
the reader by their pleasant lyric charm. They do not lack virility and
enthusiasm.
_The Sister of the Wind. By Grace Fallow Norton._ (Houghton-Mifflin:
$1.00 net.) A new volume by the author of _Little Gray Songs from St.
Joseph’s_ which is most disappointing. In a poet of Miss Norton’s
quality, it is inevitable that there should be always something to repay
the reader, but this volume is singularly unrepresentative of Miss
Norton’s real powers.
_Celtic Memories. By Norreys Jephson O’Conor._ (Lane: $1.00 net.) A
first volume of some promise by a recent graduate of Harvard, whose
Irish feeling is drawn directly from experience, but whose expression is
still drawn chiefly from books.
* _The Ebon Muse and Other Poems by Léon Laviaux. Englished by John
Myers O’Hara._ (Smith and Sale: $2.00 net.) Translations from the work
of a young Creole poet, glorifying the “fille de couleur” in love poetry
of original beauty. Differing from Latin and Oriental passion alike, it
reveals a type of feminine beauty which is wholly new to Northern
readers.
* _An Epilogue To the Praise of Angus and Other Poems. By Seumas
O’Sullivan._ (Norman, Remington Co.: $.75 net.) A thin sheaf of delicate
poems by one of the foremost poets of the New Ireland. Akin in certain
aspects of his vision to “Æ,” who does not surpass him, his verses have
more singing quality, and he is a successful experimenter in various new
verse forms which reproduce cadences in ancient Irish music.
* _One Woman to Another, and Other Poems. By Corinne Roosevelt
Robinson._ (Scribner: $1.25 net.) Dramatic monologues and sonnets of
sharply etched lines whose competence is unquestionable, and a more
satisfying reality of human feeling than in Mrs. Robinson’s previous
volume. The volume will give much intellectual and some emotional
pleasure, and in two or three lyrics the poet has achieved high ground.
* _Beyond the Breakers, and other Poems. By George Sterling._
(Robertson: $1.25 net.) This is Mr. Sterling’s first thoroughly
satisfying book. It includes the superb “Ode on the Centenary of the
Birth of Robert Browning,” and poems of such importance as “Tidal, King
of Nations,” “Willy Pitcher,” “The Mission Swallows,” “Past the Panes,”
and “You Never Can Tell.” We must call particular attention to the
vision of the noble ode entitled “Beyond the Sunset.” With less opulent
diction and heady imagination than Mr. Sterling’s earlier volumes,
_Beyond the Breakers_ shows a disciplined vision expressed with a
disciplined technique.
_Open Water. By Arthur Stringer._ (Lane: $1.00 net) A collection of
delicate pictures expressing many frail and drifting moods phrased in
_vers libre_ not yet quite sure of itself. The volume contains much
quiet beauty, and is prefaced by a plea for _vers libre_ of considerable
documentary and critical value. A volume which the lover of poetry can
scarcely neglect.
_Idylls of Greece. Third Series. By Howard V. Sutherland._ (Fitzgerald:
$1.00 net) Modest idylls of Greek fable telling with some passages of
beauty the tales of “Idas and Marpessa,” “Rhodanthe,” “Sappho and
Phaon,” and “Œnone.” The blank verse, though not firm, is of
well-wrought texture, and Mr. Sutherland expresses feelingly the
fleeting beauty of Pagan love and Hellenic landscape. Mr. Sutherland’s
three volumes merit more attention than they have received.
_The Poems of François Villon. Translated by H. De Vere Stacpoole._
(Lane: $1.50 net) A convenient edition of Villon’s best work, in which a
reasonably accurate text of the two Testaments and the best of the
Ballades and Rondels is printed, together with a running commentary, a
vivid introduction, and translations of some of the shorter poems with
dubious success. However, the volume is the best popular service to
Villon that has yet been performed in this country, and should be on the
library shelf.
* _Little Verse for a Little Clan. By F.D.W._ (Published Privately: Not
for Sale.) A slight little volume of thirty-five pages of delicate
workmanship, which contain poems that make the book rank among the very
best of the year. I know of very few books written by Americans which
would afford the pleasure to discriminating readers that this volume
would offer were it to be published in a form accessible to all. It is
as delicate, at its best, as Beeching and Mackail’s _Love in Idleness_,
and will please all lovers of _A Shropshire Lad_. It is just the sort of
book which Mr. Mosher used to delight in finding for the American
public. I shall be glad to give further information about it to
inquirers.
_Eris: A Dramatic Allegory. By Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff._ (Moffat,
Yard, and Co.: $1.00 net.) A short dramatic allegory in which the
elements of poetry are present, but which is hardly successful in fusing
them into life. There are several pages of genuine poetry which prove
the certainty of the poet’s ultimate accomplishment, and much competent
craftsmanship. This is an honest book, whose weakness is that the
imagination of the reader has no suggestive substance to feed upon.
_Justification: A Philosophic Phantasy. By John H. White._ (Richard G.
Badger: $1.00.) A poem in four short cantos and though philosophic in
conception is full of abstract idealisms. The author has a fruitful
imagination, but his reasoning on the origin and destiny of human life
is profound. The verse, though concrete, is flexible.
* _The Collected Poems of Margaret L. Woods._ (Lane: $1.50 net.) The
definitive edition of the poetry and drama of a great weaver of words
and emotion, who unites to much of Lionel Johnson’s repressed sombreness
a sustained beauty of musical effect which was characteristic of the
earlier poet. Mrs. Woods has performed for Oxford the poetic service
that Johnson performed for Winchester, and in other poems has added new
immortalities to Westminster Abbey’s crown. The plays are finely wrought
and deeply felt, and together with the lyrics, place Mrs. Woods in the
authentic English poetic line.
LIST OF “DISTINCTIVE POEMS,” THEIR AUTHORS, AND THE MAGAZINES IN WHICH
THEY APPEARED
_Century_--
The River. John Masefield.
Hope. Oliver Herford.
The Poet Rebukes His Flatterers. Fannie Stearns Gifford.
To Arms. Louis Untermeyer.
The Crucible. Robert Haven Schauffler.
To My Baby Hilda. Grace Hazard Conkling.
Love’s Lantern. Joyce Kilmer.
To My Little Son. Pauline Florence Brower.
Menace. George Sterling.
On Hans Christian Andersen’s “Snow Queen.” William Rose Benét.
The Redwing. Bliss Carman.
El Greco Paints His Masterpiece. Thomas Walsh.
The Last Shrine. Richard Le Gallienne.
The Gaoler. Helen Gray Cone.
Summons. Louis Untermeyer.
O My Love Leonore. Fannie Stearns Gifford.
Three Poplars. Witter Bynner.
The Feast of the Gods. William Rose Benét.
Landscapes. Louis Untermeyer.
Patterns. James Oppenheim.
A Handful of Dust. James Oppenheim.
We Dead. James Oppenheim.
Lights Through the Mist. William Rose Benét.
The Flirt. Amelia Josephine Burr.
A Birthnight Candle. John Finley.
All Souls’ Night. Gertrude Huntington McGiffert.
“I Shall Go to Love Again.” Margaret Widdemer.
Prinzip. Cale Young Rice.
_Harper’s_--
The Look. Sara Teasdale.
Afterward. Charles Hanson Towne.
Old Friend. Richard Le Gallienne.
The Pool. Mary White Slater.
Night Song at Amalfi. Sara Teasdale.
Exile. Alice Duer Miller.
The Laggard Song. Richard Le Gallienne.
A Face at Christmas. Dana Burnet.
The Glory of the Grass. Claire Wallace Flynn.
Ships. John Masefield.
_Scribner’s_--
Student’s Song. Robert Louis Stevenson.
With Walton in Angle-Land. Robert Gilbert Welsh.
Reprieve. Charlotte Wilson.
Sir John Chandos and the Earl of Pembroke: A Ballad
from Froissart. E. Sutton.
The Gift of God. Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Swimming by Night. Alice Blaine Damrosch.
How Spring Comes to Shasta Jim. Henry van Dyke.
The Trodden Way. Martha Haskell Clark.
Old Fairingdown. Olive Tilford Dargan.
The Summons. William Rose Benét.
Solace. Walter Malone.
In the “Zoo.” George T. Marsh.
The Pipes of the North. E. Sutton.
The Regents’ Examination. Jessie Wallace Hughan.
If You Should Cease to Love Me. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson.
Desert Song. John Galsworthy.
The Drum. E. Sutton.
Another Dark Lady. Edwin Arlington Robinson.
_The Forum_--
The Song of the Women. Florence Kiper.
The Song of the Wind. John Allan Wyeth, Jr.
Pilgrimage. Laura Campbell.
The Cry of Woman. Victor Starbuck.
The Man on the Hill-top. Arthur Davison Ficke.
Sonnets of a Portrait-Painter, A Sequence (57 Sonnets).
Arthur Davison Ficke.
Interim. Edna St. Vincent Millay.
The Prophet. Lyman Bryson.
The Two Flames. Eloise Briton.
The Shroud. Edna St. Vincent Millay.
The Cardinal’s Garden, Villa Albani. Witter Bynner.
Sorrow. Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Phi Beta Kappa Poem: Harvard, 1914. Bliss Carman.
_The Bellman_--
The Ancient Sacrifice. Mahlon Leonard Fisher.
“Funere Mersit Acerbo.” Ruth Shepard Phelps.
At the End of the Road. Madison Cawein.
In the Roman Forum. Amelia Josephine Burr.
Winner of Second. Witter Bynner.
Foretaste. Mahlon Leonard Fisher.
The Symbol. Richard Burton.
A Lynmouth Widow. Amelia Josephine Burr.
The Coquette. Witter Bynner.
The Closed Book. Madison Cawein.
Jewel-Weed. Florence Earle Coates.
Charwomen. James Norman Hall.
The Dynamo. Jane Belfield.
Sentinels. Witter Bynner.
The Master-Poet. Theresa V. Beard.
Out of Babylon. Clinton Scollard.
To a Phœbe-Bird. Witter Bynner.
The Lame Child. Amelia Josephine Burr.
The Dead Friend. Margaret Widdemer.
The Dear Adventurer. Richard Burton.
Idols. Richard Burton.
Shakespeare. Witter Bynner.
If You Should Tire of Loving Me. Margaret Widdemer.
_Smart Set_--
New York. Edwin Davies Schoonmaker.
Old Poets. Joyce Kilmer.
Variations on a Classic Theme. Louis Untermeyer.
The Ballad of St. John of Nepomuk. George Sterling.
The Reporter--An Assignment. Paul Scott Mowrer.
Bewilderment. Victor Starbuck.
The Hunting of Dian. George Sterling.
The Rebuke. John Myers O’Hara.
The Friend at Sardis. John Myers O’Hara.
Lassitude. John Myers O’Hara.
Ablution. John Myers O’Hara.
Wine of the World. John Hall Wheelock.
The Awakening. Aloysius Coll.
The Weed’s Counsel. Bliss Carman.
Rarer than Comets. Witter Bynner.
Villanelle of Vision. Willard Huntington Wright.
Ballad of Two Seas. George Sterling.
Manhood. Willard A. Wattles.
The Country of the Young. Donn Byrne.
The Twelve-Forty-Five. Joyce Kilmer.
You Never Can Tell. George Sterling.
Pas de Trois. Bliss Carman and Mary Perry King.
The Mule Driver. Henry Herbert Knibbs.
Narcissus. Robert Bridges.
The Poet Returns. Victor B. Neuburg.
Consummation. Mahlon Leonard Fisher.
Argosies. Victor Starbuck.
The Last Demand. Faith Baldwin.
He Went for a Soldier. Ruth Comfort Mitchell.
Books. Grace Fallow Norton.
An Old Maid. Louis Untermeyer.
Newport. Alice Duer Miller.
The Wind. Victor Starbuck.
Sky Battle. Harry Kemp.
Mown Fields. Leonard Doughty.
_Yale Review_--
The Dying Pantheist to the Priest. Henry A. Beers.
God and the Farmer. Frederick Erastus Pierce.
Ash Wednesday. John Erskine.
The Mirror. Fannie Stearns Gifford.
Young Eden. Witter Bynner.
Surety. Witter Bynner.
Evening. Charlotte Wilson.
Desire of Fame. Charlotte Wilson.
The Tramp’s Refusal. Vachel Lindsay.
Interval. Lee Wilson Dodd.
_Lippincott’s_--
The Forsaken Seaport. Mahlon Leonard Fisher.
The Good Snow-Flake. Richard Kirk.
When Darkness Covered the Earth. Caroline Giltiman.
Moon-Glint. Jane Belfield.
The Winding Lane. Ethel Hallet Porter.
Click o’ the Latch. Nancy Byrd Turner.
Dawn. Mahlon Leonard Fisher.
As Days Go Down the West. Marion Manville.
A Coin of Lesbos. Sarah M. B. Piatt
_The International_--
The Anarchist. Zoë Akins.
Jasmines. David Morton.
To Anna Pavlowa Dancing. Joel Elias Spingarn.
The Captive. Blanche Shoemaker Waggstaff.
Still-Born. Faith Baldwin.
The Garden at Troutbeck. Joel Elias Spingarn.
Regret for Atthis. John Myers O’Hara.
A Bazaar by the Sea. Witter Bynner.
The Fireflies of Sumida. Ethel Morse Pool.
In Memoriam: Jean Moréas, 1856-1910. William Aspenwall Bradley.
Litany of Nations. William Griffith.
The Hailing Trains. Nicolas Beauduin. Trans. by Edward J. O’Brien.
Hymn of Toil. Nicolas Beauduin. Trans. by Edward J. O’Brien.
To My Love Child. Joseph Bernard Rethy.
_The Masses_--
The Masquerader. Sarah Cleghorn.
The Trappers. Wilton Agnew Barret.
The Champion. Harry Kemp.
Onward Christian Nations. Will Herford.
Poor Girl. William Rose Benét.
Comrade Jesus. Sarah Cleghorn.
Cell-Mates. Louis Untermeyer.
Grey. Lydia Gibson.
Lost Treasure. Lydia Gibson.
The Mother. Lydia Gibson.
God’s Blunder. Clement Richardson Wood.
A Question. Edmond McKenna.
Horses. Elizabeth Waddell.
The Drug Clerk. Eunice Tietjens.
Prelude. Edmond McKenna.
God and the Strong Ones. Margaret Widdemer.
Old Glory at Calumet. Joseph Warren Beach.
Them and Their Wives. Elizabeth Waddell.
_The Trend_--
Salome. Pitts Sanborn.
Vain Excuse. Walter Conrad Arensberg.
An Epitaph. Walter Conrad Arensberg.
The Puritans. Frank Simonds.
The Valley of Silence. Mary Farley Sanborn.
To a Garden in April. Walter Conrad Arensberg.
Green Orchids for Mænad. Donald Evans.
Stars of Paris. Donald Evans.
Une Nuit Blanche. Donald Evans.
You and Me. Mary Farley Sanborn.
To One Defending New York. Walter Prichard Eaton.
The Shadows of Desire. Donald Evans.
Portrait. Walter Conrad Arensberg.
On an Old Guitar. Wallace Stevens.
To the Necrophile. Walter Conrad Arensberg.
“Six Carried Her Away.” Djuna Chappell Barnes.