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
Thomas, Edith M. [1854-1925] (3)
Born at Chatham, Ohio, August 12, 1854. Graduated at
the Normal Institute of Geneva, Ohio. Since 1888 she has resided in New York
and is a member of the editorial staff of "Harper's Magazine".
She is the author of "A New Year's Masque", 1885; "Lyrics and Sonnets", 1887;
"The Inverted Torch", 1890; "Fair Shadowland", 1893; "In Sunshine Land", 1895;
"A Winter Swallow", 1896; "The Dancers", 1903; "The Guest at the Gate", 1909;
"The White Messenger", 1915; and "The Flower from the Ashes", 1915.
Miss Thomas is a poet of rare and subtle quality. Her work is almost
wholly subjective, the emotional reaction to her own experience.
She has written many lyrics which are among the choicest possessions
of our literature.
Torrence, Ridgely. [1875-1950] (2)
Born at Xenia, Ohio, November 27, 1875. Educated at Miami University, Ohio,
and at Princeton. Served as assistant librarian at the Astor and Lenox
libraries in New York City from 1897 to 1903. His volumes of poetry
and poetic drama are: "The House of a Hundred Lights", 1900;
"El Dorado: A Tragedy", 1903; "Abelard and Heloise: A Drama", 1907.
Towne, Charles Hanson. [1877-1949] (2)
Born at Louisville, Kentucky, February 2, 1877. Educated at
New York City College. Mr. Towne has been an active journalist,
having been successively editor of "The Smart Set", "The Delineator",
"The Designer", and "McClure's Magazine". Despite his journalistic work
he has found time to write several volumes of poetry of which
the best known are: "The Quiet Singer, and Other Poems", 1908;
"Manhattan", 1909; "Youth, and Other Poems", 1910; "Beyond the Stars,
and Other Poems", 1912; and "To-day and To-morrow", 1916.
Untermeyer, Louis. [1885-1977] (2)
Born at New York City, October 1, 1885. Educated in the public schools
of that city. He has been connected editorially with "The Masses" and with
"The Seven Arts", and does critical work for the "Chicago Evening Post".
He is the author of "First Love", 1911; "Challenge", 1914;
"And Other Poets: A Book of Parodies", 1916; "These Times", 1917;
and "The Poems of Heinrich Heine, Selected and Translated", 1917.
Upson, Arthur. [1877-1908] (4)
Born at Camden, New York, in 1877. Educated at Camden Academy
and the University of Minnesota. He is the author of "Westwind Songs", 1902;
"Octaves in an Oxford Garden", 1902; "The City: A Poem Drama", 1905;
"The Tides of Spring, and Other Poems", 1907. Mr. Upson died August 14, 1908.
His death was an inestimable loss to American literature,
as he was a poet of rare gifts which were maturing with each expression.
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