Mr. Piper's volume, (_Barbed Wire and Other Poems_, 1917) reflects the prairies of the Middle West. STUDIES AND REVIEWS 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. BIBLIOGRAPHY The Voice of the Street. 1906. The Harbor. 1915. His Family. 1917. His Second Wife. 1918. The Village. 1918. "The Dark People," Russia's Crisis. 1918. Blind. 1920. Beggar's Gold. 1921. STUDIES AND REVIEWS Bookm. 41 ('15): 115 (portrait). Cur. Op. 58 ('15): 266 (portrait). Ind. 94 ('18): 229 (portrait). Mentor, 6 ('18): 7 (portrait). R. of Rs. 51 ('15): 631 (portrait). Unpop. R. 6 ('16): 231. World Today, 18 ('10): 232 (portrait). See also _Book Review Digest_, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1920. +Ezra (Loomis) Pound+--poet, critic. Born at Hailey, Idaho, 1885. Of English descent; on his mother's side distantly related to Longfellow. Ph.B., Hamilton College. Fellow of the University of Pennsylvania. Traveled in Spain, in Italy, in Provence, 1906-7; lived in Venice, and finally made his home in England. London editor of _The Little Review_, 1917-9, and foreign correspondent of _Poetry_, 1912-9. SUGGESTIONS FOR READING 1. Mr. Pound is an experimenter in verse, who has come under many influences and belonged to many schools. His work should be studied chronologically to discover these changes in interest and relationship. To be noted among the influences are: (1) the mediaeval poetry of Provence; (2) the Greek poets; (3) the Latin poets of the Empire; (4) among modern French poets, Laurent Tailhade; (5) the poets of China and Japan, whom he learned to know through the manuscript notes of Ernest Fenollosa; (6) the work of the English Imagists (cf. especially the poems of T.E. Hulme, published in Mr. Pound's volume called _Ripostes_); (7) the work of the Vorticist school of poets and artists (cf. _Blast_, edited by Wyndham Lewis), and the more accessible periodical, _The Egoist_, of which Richard Aldington (cf. Manly and Rickert, _Contemporary British Literature_) is assistant editor.