The Second Book of Modern Verse: A Selection from the Work of Contemporaneous American Poets
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The Second Book of Modern Verse: A Selection from the Work of Contemporaneous American Poets
American poetry -- 20th century
Torrence, Ridgely. [1875-1950] (2)
Born at Xenia, Ohio, Nov. 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 include:
"The House of a Hundred Lights", 1900; "El Dorado, A Tragedy", 1903;
"Abelard and Heloise: A Drama", 1907. Since Mr. Torrence published
his last collection, he has done some of his finest work
in lyric and narrative poetry, work that has appeared in the magazines
and which will probably be collected soon into book form.
He is a poet of vision, one of the truest voices of our day,
though his work is sparse in output.
Towne, Charles Hanson. [1877-1949] (3)
Born at Louisville, Ky., Feb. 2, 1877. Educated at New York City College.
Mr. Towne has been an active journalist, having been connected with
several metropolitan magazines and 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 largely reflective of the life of to-day
and particularly of Manhattan. 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; "To-Day and To-Morrow", 1916;
and "A World of Windows", 1919.
Untermeyer, Jean Starr. [1886-1970] (1)
Born at Zanesville, Ohio, in 1886. Educated in private schools
of New York City and in special courses at Columbia University.
Married Louis Untermeyer, the poet, 1907. Mrs. Untermeyer
did not begin writing until the free verse movement was at its height,
but she has done some excellent work and made a place for herself
in the movement. Her volume of verse, "Growing Pains", was published in 1918.
Untermeyer, Louis. [1885-1977] (3)
Born in New York City, Oct. 1, 1885. Educated in the public schools
of that city. Mr. Untermeyer, in addition to writing poetry, has done
much work in book reviewing, particularly for the `Chicago Evening Post',
and is the author of a critical book, "The New Era in American Poetry", 1919,
which discusses in a stimulating manner the work of a group of poets
of the day. His own volumes of poems are: "First Love", 1911;
"Challenge", 1914; "And Other Poets: A Book of Parodies", 1916;
"These Times", 1917; "Including Horace", another volume of parodies, 1919.
Mr. Untermeyer has made an excellent translation of
the "Poems of Heinrich Heine", 1917, and has edited
a school anthology of "Modern American Poetry", 1919.
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