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+Max Eastman+--poet, essayist, critic.
Born at Canandaigua, New York, 1883. Both his parents were
Congregationalist preachers. A.B., Williams College, 1905. From 1907 to
1911, associate in philosophy at Columbia. In 1911, began to give his
entire time to studying and writing about the problems of economic
inequality. In 1913, became editor of _The Masses_, a periodical which
voiced his theories, and which in 1917 became _The Liberator_.
In his _Enjoyment of Poetry_, Mr. Eastman shows in an interesting way how
poetry can be made to contribute to the enrichment of life.