Mr. Ezra Pound has consented to act as foreign correspondent of POETRY,
keeping its readers informed of the present interests of the art in
England, France and elsewhere.
The response of poets on both sides of the Atlantic has been most
encouraging, so that the quality of the next few numbers is assured. One
of our most important contributions is Mr. John G. Neihardt's brief
recently finished tragedy, _The Death of Agrippina_, to which an entire
number will be devoted within a few months.
Mr. Joseph Campbell is one of the younger poets closely associated with
the renaissance of art and letters in Ireland. His first book of poems
was _The Gilly of Christ_; a later volume including these is _The
Mountainy Singer_ (Maunsel & Co.).
Mr. Charles Hanson Towne, the New York poet and magazine editor, has
published three volumes of verse, _The Quiet Singer_ (Rickey),
_Manhattan_, and _Youth and Other Poems_; also five song-cycles in
collaboration with two composers.
Mr. Richard Aldington is a young English poet, one of the "Imagistes," a
group of ardent Hellenists who are pursuing interesting experiments in
_vers libre_; trying to attain in English certain subtleties of cadence
of the kind which Mallarmé and his followers have studied in French. Mr.
Aldington has published little as yet, and nothing in America.
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, the well-known writer on art, began comparatively
late to publish verse in the magazines. Her volume, _Poems_ (Macmillan),
was issued in 1910.
Miss Long and Miss Widdemer are young Americans, some of whose poems
have appeared in various magazines.
The last issue of POETRY accredited Mr. Ezra Pound's _Provenca_ to the
Houghton-Mifflin Co. This was an error; Small, Maynard & Co. are Mr.
Pound's American publishers.