The Little Book of Modern Verse: A Selection from the Work of Contemporaneous American Poets
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The Little Book of Modern Verse: A Selection from the Work of Contemporaneous American Poets
American poetry
Millay, Edna St. Vincent. [1892-1950] (1)
Born at Camden, Maine. Educated at Vassar College. Before entering college,
however, when she was but nineteen years of age, she wrote the poem
"Renascence", which was entered in the prize contest of "The Lyric Year".
The poem shows remarkable imagination and a poetic gift of a high order.
Miss Millay has not yet issued a volume of verse.
Moody, William Vaughn. [1869-1910] (3)
Born at Spencer, Indiana, July 8, 1869. Educated at Riverside Academy,
New York, and at Harvard. In 1895 he became Assistant Professor of English
in the University of Chicago, where he remained until 1903.
His period of teaching, however, was relieved by several trips abroad,
on one of which he visited Greece and re-read the entire body of Greek tragedy
with the background of the scenes which produced it. The Greek influence,
dominant in his work, reaches its finest expression in "The Fire-Bringer",
a poetic drama of great beauty and philosophical depth.
This drama is one of a trilogy of which it is the first member,
the second being "The Masque of Judgment", and the third, "The Death of Eve".
The last was in process of writing at Mr. Moody's death
and only fragments of it have been published. This trilogy,
profound in its spiritual meaning and artistic in execution,
would alone be sufficient to place Moody among the major poets
had he not left us a body of lyric poetry of equal distinction.
Moody first attracted wide attention by "An Ode in Time of Hesitation",
written in relation to the annexation of the Philippine Islands
by the United States. In addition to this he has left us several poems
notable for their social vision, particularly "Gloucester Moors".
In the songs of "The Fire-Bringer", however, we have his truest
lyric offering, and in "The Daguerreotype", that poignant and beautiful poem
to his mother. Moody died at Colorado Springs on October 17, 1910.
His work has been collected into two volumes, "The Poems and Plays
of William Vaughn Moody", 1912.
Neihardt, John G. [1881-1973] (2)
Born at Sharpsburg, Illinois, January 8, 1881. Removed in his early boyhood
to Bancroft, Nebraska, his present home. He has made a special study
of the pioneer life of the West and has also lived for a time
among the Omaha Indians to study them. His work has virility and imagination
and reflects the life which inspired it. His books of verse are:
"A Bundle of Myrrh", 1908; "Man-Song", 1909; "The Stranger at the Gate", 1912;
"The Song of Hugh Glass", 1915; and "The Quest", 1916.
Norton, Grace Fallow. [1876-?] (1)
Born at Northfield, Minnesota, October 29, 1876. She is the author of
"The Little Gray Songs from St. Joseph's", 1912; "The Sister of the Wind",
1914; "Roads", 1915; "What is Your Legion?", 1916.
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