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
O'Hara, John Myers. [1870-1944] (2)
Author of "Songs of the Open", 1909; "The Poems of Sappho:
An Interpretative Rendition into English", 1910; "Pagan Sonnets", 1910;
"The Ebon Muse", 1914; "Manhattan", 1915. Mr. O'Hara's rendition of "Sappho"
is one of the finest in English literature.
O Sheel, Shaemas. [1886-1954] (2) <also O'Sheel>
Born at New York City, September 19, 1886. Educated at Columbia University.
His volumes are: "The Blossomy Bough", 1911, and "The Light Feet of Goats",
1915.
Peabody, Josephine Preston (Mrs. Lionel Marks). [1874-1922] (3)
Born at New York City. Educated at the Girls' Latin School of Boston
and at Radcliffe College. She was instructor of English at Wellesley College
from 1901 to 1903. Her volumes of lyric and dramatic poetry
in their order are: "The Wayfarers", 1898; "Fortune and Men's Eyes", 1900;
"Marlowe: A Drama", 1901; "The Singing Leaves", 1903; "The Wings", 1905;
"The Piper", a drama, awarded the Stratford-on-Avon Prize, 1910;
"The Singing Man", 1911; "The Wolf of Gubbio: A Drama", 1913;
"The Harvest Moon", 1916. Miss Peabody, as her volumes show,
is a poet of varied gifts and her work is always distinguished
by charm of personality and by insight.
Reese, Lizette Woodworth. [1856-1935] (4)
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, January 9, 1856. Educated in the schools
of that city. She has been for many years a teacher of English
in West High School of Baltimore. Her volumes of verse are:
"A Branch of May", 1887; "A Handful of Lavender", 1891; "A Quiet Road", 1896;
"A Wayside Lute", 1909. Miss Reese has a lyric gift unique in its
strict Saxon simplicity. Her work has an early, Old-World flavor,
a quaintness, a magic of phrase that renders it wholly individual.
Rice, Cale Young. [1872-1943] (3)
Born at Dixon, Kentucky, December 7, 1872. Graduated from
Cumberland University in 1893, and from Harvard University in 1895,
where he remained to take the degree of A.M. in 1896.
He is the author of many fine poetic dramas, some of which have had
successful stage presentation, and of several volumes of lyric poetry.
In poetic drama his best-known volumes are: "Charles di Tocca", 1903;
"David", 1904; "Yolanda of Cyprus", 1906; "A Night in Avignon", 1907;
"The Immortal Lure", 1911; "Porzia", 1913. In lyric poetry he has published
the following collections: "From Dusk to Dusk", 1898; "Song Surf", 1900;
"Nirvana Days", 1908; "Many Gods", 1910; "Far Quests", 1912;
"At the World's Heart", 1914; "Earth and New Earth", 1916;
"Trails Sunward", 1917. With the exception of the last two books,
Mr. Rice's plays and poems were collected into two volumes in 1915.
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