Poetry, 7 ('15): 152.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1915, 1920.
+Hilda Conkling+--poet.
Born at Catskill-on-Hudson, New York, 1910, daughter of Grace Hazard
Conkling (q.v.). She began to talk her poems to her mother at the age of
four. Her mother took them down without change, merely arranging the line
divisions. Her earliest expression was in the form of a chant to an
imaginary companion to whom she gave the name "Mary Cobweb" (cf. Poetry,
14 ['19]: 344).
Hilda Conkling's name is included in this list, not because her poems are
remarkable for a child, but because they show actual achievement and the
highest quality of imagination.
Her work is to be found in _Poetry_, 8 ('16): 191; and 10 ('17): 197, and
one volume has been published, _Poems by a Little Girl_, 1920 (with
introduction by Amy Lowell).