Chapter 13

Wood, Clement. [1888-1950] (3) Born at Tuscaloosa, Ala., Sept. 1, 1888, but reared in Birmingham, Ala., where he attended Taylor's Academy and Birmingham High School. Received his degree of A.B. from the University of Alabama in 1909, and of LL.B. from Yale University in 1911. He returned to his home city of Birmingham and practiced law for several years, becoming assistant city attorney of Birmingham in 1912, and police magistrate of the Central District of Birmingham, 1912-13. The following year he came to New York for advanced work in sociology and literature and became a contributor of poems, essays, and short stories to various magazines. In 1917 he was awarded the first prize of $250 by the Newark Committee of One Hundred, as part of their Anniversary Celebration, for his poem, "The Smithy of God", and in 1919 he was also awarded one of the three Lyric Society Prizes, of $500 each, for his poem, "Jehovah". In 1914 Mr. Wood married Mildred M. Cummer, of Buffalo, N.Y., who is also a writer. In poetry he is the author of the following books: "Glad of Earth", 1917; "The Earth Turns South", 1919; and "Jehovah", 1920. He has also written a novel called "Mountain", published in 1920.

---- Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle. [1869-1948] Jessie Rittenhouse is best known as an editor and for her compilations, but she was also a poet -- though she did not include her own work in her compilations. Her compilations and criticisms include: "The younger American poets", 1904; "The Little Book of Modern Verse", 1913; "The Little Book of American Poets, 1787-1900", 1915; "The Second Book of Modern Verse", 1919; "The Little Book of Modern British Verse: One Hundred Poets since Henley", 1924; "The Third Book of Modern Verse", 1927. Her own works include: "The Door of Dreams", 1918; "The Lifted Cup", 1921; "The Secret Bird", 1930; "My House of Life; an Autobiography", 1934; and "The Moving Tide; New and Selected Lyrics", 1939. Her compilations went through numerous printings, and are still a good guide to the poetry of the era. ----

Notes to the text:

Though most of the publishers only required acknowledgements in the section devoted to such, one apparently insisted that they also appear in the text. These intrusions have been removed from the text, but are noted here:

Edwin Arlington Robinson. `Flammonde' & `Old King Cole', reprinted from "The Man against the Sky", 1916.

Vachel Lindsay. `The Chinese Nightingale' & `The Flower of Mending', reprinted from "The Chinese Nightingale, and Other Poems", 1917. `General William Booth Enters into Heaven', reprinted from "General William Booth Enters into Heaven, and Other Poems", 1913. `Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight', reprinted from "The Congo, and Other Poems", 1914.

Sara Teasdale. `Love Songs' (only the first 4 out of 5) reprinted from "Love Songs", 1917.

Scudder Middleton. `Interlude' & `Romance', reprinted from "The New Day", 1919.

Amy Lowell. `Venus Transiens' & `Madonna of the Evening Flowers' , reprinted from "Pictures of the Floating World", 1919. `Patterns', reprinted from "Men, Women and Ghosts", 1916. `A Lady' & `Apology', reprinted from "Sword Blades and Poppy Seed", 1914.

John G. Neihardt. `Ballad of a Child', reprinted from "The Quest", 1916.

Louis V. Ledoux. `Mater Dolorosa', reprinted from "The Story of Eleusis", 1916.

Edgar Lee Masters. `Spoon River Anthology' (selections from), reprinted from "Spoon River Anthology", 1915. `Silence', reprinted from "Songs and Satires", 1915.

Mary Carolyn Davies. `Smith, of the Third Oregon, Dies', reprinted from "Drums in Our Street", 1918.

Hermann Hagedorn. `Doors', reprinted from "Poems and Ballads", 1913.

In some cases, e.g. "Love Songs" and "Spoon River Anthology", there is a selection of short poems grouped together under the title of the book from which they were drawn -- though in the case of "Love Songs", only the first four are actually from the book of the same name.

Due to the technical limitations of ASCII, accents were not included in the text. However, a complete list follows of each line where an accent occurred in the original. The "pipe" character (|) indicates a special character, and a marker for the accent follows, except in cases where two vowels make a combined character, as in C(ae)sar. The appropriate accents should be obvious. The affected lines are:

Ad Matrem Amantissimam et Carissimam Filii in |Aeternum Fidelitas. Chanson of the Bells of Osen|\ey. [Cale Young Rice] Reveill|/e. [Louis Untermeyer] The Unknown Belov|\ed. [John Hall Wheelock] Voyage |\a l'Infini. [Walter Conrad Arensberg] The bells of Osen|\ey (Hautcl|\ere, Doucement, Austyn) The bells of Osen|\ey Hautcl|\ere chants to the East The bells of Osen|\ey (Doucement, Austyn, Hautcl|\ere) The loveliest f|^ete and carnival These things do not remember you, belov|\ed, -- I am in love with all unveil|\ed faces. Belov|\ed, till the day break, Belov|\ed and my Love! Bosomed with the Bless|\ed One, Thinking, beside the pi|~nons' flame, of days [changed to pinyon in text] The bright Champs-Elys|/ees at last -- The impasse and the loved caf|/e; |\A deux and pledge across the wine!" Of bearing in grand d|/ejeuner. And rich perfum|/ed smells Of pil|\ed masonry, which shall be ours Said he, "Your most belov|\ed Here have I no belov|\ed, Here lies, thy true belov|\ed including "The Magical City", "Papa", a comedy, and "D|/eclass|/e", which won a great success with Ethel Barrymore in the leading r|^ole. the Croix de Guerre and the M|/edaille de Reconnaissance fran|,caise. "The Sharing", 1914; translator of the poems of Th|/eophile Gautier, "The Shadow of |Aetna", 1914; "The Story of Eleusis: A Lyrical Drama", 1916. 1900; student University of G|"ottingen, 1901; University of Bonn, 1902; "Glory of the Morning", a play, 1912; "|Aesop and Hyssop", 1913. Born at Br|"un, Austria, though of American parentage, on April 8, 1879. having made admirable renderings of Gustaf Fr|"oding, 1916, "Abelard and H|/eloise: A Drama", 1907. Since Mr. Torrence published of the Nicaraguan poet, Rub|/en Dario. Mr. Walsh is much interested in Germany, studying during 1909 at G|"ottingen and during 1910 the Sorbonne and the Biblioth|\eque Nationale of Paris.

Also all occurences of Ben|/et (Stephen Vincent & William Rose Ben|/et) and of Zo|"e for Zo|"e Akins.

The Acknowledgements section has been omitted.

Corrections to the text: (These were checked against copies of the volumes from which the poems were extracted.)

Spoon River Anthology. [Edgar Lee Masters]

"As Bryon's did, in song, in something noble," changed to "As Byron's did, in song, in something noble,"

Abraham Lincoln walks at Midnight. [Vachel Lindsay]

added subtitle: (In Springfield, Illinois)

"A famous high-top hat and plain worn shawl" changed to "A famous high top-hat and plain worn shawl"

"The prairie lawyer, master of us all." changed to "The prairie-lawyer, master of us all."

Apology. [Amy Lowell]

"You blazen me with jewelled insignia." changed to "You blazon me with jewelled insignia."

Biographical Notes:

"H. D." was incorrectly identified as "Helena Doolittle". This has been corrected to "Hilda Doolittle".

In addition, some information was added to the Biographical Notes, most notably dates for each author (when available) and which ones won a Pulitzer Prize, and in which year(s).