Untermeyer.
Poetry, 12 ('18): 276.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1917.
+Ernest Poole+--novelist.
Born at Chicago, 1880. A.B., Princeton, 1902. Lived in University
Settlement, New York, 1902-5, studying social conditions, especially in
connection with child labor, and in the movement to fight tuberculosis.
He helped Upton Sinclair (q.v.) gather stockyards material for _The
Jungle_. War correspondent in Germany and France, 1914-5. As a socialist,
Mr. Poole also worked for a time in Russia with the revolutionaries.
The familiarity with dockyards and dockmen, which is such a striking
feature of _The Harbor_, dates back to Mr. Poole's boyhood.