6. If you are familiar with the impressionistic method of painting, work out an analogy between it and Miss Lowell's word pictures. 7. Study separately her varieties of free verse and polyphonic prose (cf. her study of Paul Fort and the preface to _Can Grande's Castle_). Choose several poems in which you think the free verse form is especially adapted to the content and draw conclusions as to the problems of development of this kind of verse or of its possible influence upon regular metrical forms. 8. Use the following poem by Miss Lowell as a basis for judging her work: FRAGMENT What is poetry? Is it a mosaic Of colored stones which curiously are wrought Into a pattern? Rather glass that's taught By patient labor any hue to take And glowing with a sumptuous splendor, make Beauty a thing of awe; where sunbeams caught, Transmuted fall in sheafs of rainbows fraught With storied meaning for religion's sake. 9. In summing up Miss Lowell's achievement, consider the different phases of it that appear in her volumes taken in chronological order, noting the successive influences under which she has come. In what qualities does she stand out strikingly from other contemporary poets? Do you expect different and more important work from her in the future? BIBLIOGRAPHY A Dome of Many-Colored Glass. 1912. Sword Blades and Poppy Seed. 1914. Six French Poets. 1915. Men, Women and Ghosts. 1916. Tendencies in Modern American Poetry. 1917. Can Grande's Castle. 1918. Pictures of the Floating World. 1919. Legends; Tales of Peoples. 1921. Fir-Flower Tablets. Poems Translated from the Chinese. 1921. (With Florence Ayscough.) STUDIES AND REVIEWS Boynton. Hunt, R. and Snow, R.H. Amy Lowell. 1921. Untermeyer. Bookm. 47 ('18): 255. (Phelps.) Chapbook, 1-2, May, 1920: 8. Dial, 61 ('16): 528; 65 ('18): 346; 67 ('19): 331 Egoist, 1 ('14): 422; 2 ('15): 81, 109; 3 ('16): 9. Freeman, 4 ('21): 18. Ind. 87 ('16): 306 (portrait); 88 ('16):533 (portrait); 93 ('18): 294. Lit. Digest, 52 ('16): 971; 63 ('19): Nov. 29, p. 31 (portraits); 72 ('22): 38. Lond. Mer., 3 ('21): 441. New Repub. 6 ('16): 178. No. Am. 207 ('18): 257, 736. Poetry, 6 ('15): 32; 9 ('17): 207; 10 ('17): 149; 13 ('18): 97; 15 ('20): 332. Sewanee R. 28 ('20): 37. Spec. 125 ('20): 744. Touchstone, 2 ('18): 416; 7 ('20): 219. +George Barr McCutcheon+ (1866)--novelist. The creator of Graustark. For bibliography, see _Who's Who in America_. +Percy (Wallace) Mackaye+--dramatist, poet. Born in New York City, 1875, son of Steele Mackaye, dramatist and manager. A.B., Harvard, 1897. Traveled in Europe, 1898-1900, studying at the University of Leipzig, 1899-1900. Taught in private school in New York, 1900-04. Joined the colony at Cornish, New Hampshire, 1904. Since then has been engaged chiefly in dramatic work. BIBLIOGRAPHY