Category: Poetry
Meaning of the word "advance"--the present widespread interest in poetry--the spiritual warfare--Henley and Thompson--Thomas Hardy a prophet in literature--_The Dynasts_--his atheism--his lyrical power--Kipling the Victorian--his future possibilities--Robert Bridges--Robert W....
Irish poetry a part of English Literature--common-sense the basis of romanticism--misapprehension of the poetic temperament--William Butler Yeats--his education--his devotion to...
2. Chapter 2Stephen Phillips--his immediate success--influence of Stratford-on-Avon--his plays--a traditional poet--his realism--William Watson--his unpromising start--his lament on the col...
10. Chapter 10Sara Teasdale--her poems of love--her youth--her finished art--Fannie Stearns Davis--her thoughtful verse--Theodosia Garrison--her war poem--war poetry of Mary Carolyn Davies--H...
1. Chapter 1Meaning of the word "advance"--the present widespread interest in poetry--the spiritual warfare--Henley and Thompson--Thomas Hardy a prophet in literature--_The Dynasts_--his at...
8. Chapter 8Lindsay the Cymbalist--first impression--Harriet Monroe's Magazine--training in art--the long vagabond tramps--correct order of his works--his drawings--the "Poem Game"--_The Co...
5. Chapter 5Rupert Brooke--a personality--the spirit of youth--his horror at old age--Henry James's tribute--his education--a genius--his poems of death--his affected cynicism--his nature p...
9. Chapter 9Amy Lowell--a patrician--a radical--her education--her years of preparation--vigour and versatility--definitions of free verse and of poetry--Whitman's influence--the imagists--...
3. Chapter 3John Masefield--new wine in old bottles--back to Chaucer--the self-conscious adventurer--early education and experiences--_Dauber_--Mr. Masefleld's remarks on Wordsworth--Wordsw...
11. Chapter 11Henry A. Beers--the fine quality of his literary style in prose and verse--force and grace--finished art--his humour--C. M. Lewis--his war poem--E. B. Reed--_Lyra Yalensis_--F....
4. Chapter 4Two Northumberland poets--Wilfrid Wilson Gibson--his early failures--his studies of low life--his collected poems--his short dramas of pastoral experiences--_Daily Bread_--lack...
7. Chapter 7American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties--William Vaughn Moody--his early death a serious loss to literature--George Santayana--a master of the sonnet--Robert Underwood Johnson-...