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
Walsh, Thomas. [1875-1928] (2)
Born in Brooklyn, Oct. 14, 1875. Educated at Georgetown University,
where he took the degree of Ph.D. in 1892. Spent the years from 1892 to 1895,
at Columbia University. In 1917 he received the honorary degree of Litt.D.
from Georgetown University and of LL.D. from the University of Notre Dame.
He is the author of "The Prison Ships", 1909; "The Pilgrim Kings", 1915;
"Gardens Overseas", 1917; and is the translator of a collection of the poems
of the Nicaraguan poet, Ruben Dario. Mr. Walsh is much interested
in Spanish literature and art and much of his work turns upon these themes.
Wattles, Willard. [1888-1950] (3)
Born in Bayneville, Kan., June 8, 1888. Educated at the University of Kansas,
where he took the degree of A.B. in 1909 (Phi Beta Kappa) and of A.M. in 1911.
Mr. Wattles took up the profession of teaching and was instructor in English
at the High School, Leavenworth, Kan., 1910-11, leaving this position to
go East and become one of the staff of the Massachusetts Agricultural College,
where he remained until 1914, when he returned to his alma mater,
the University of Kansas. He is still assistant in the English department
of that college. He has published as yet but one collection,
"Lanterns in Gethsemane", 1917, a volume of poems pertaining to
the life of Christ, but not written in the usual vein of religious poetry.
He is also the compiler of "Sunflowers", a book of Kansas poems, 1916.
Wheelock, John Hall. [1886-1978] (4)
Born at Far Rockaway, N.Y., in 1886. He took the degree of A.B.
from Harvard University in 1908 and spent the next two years
in Germany, studying during 1909 at Gottingen and during 1910
at the University of Berlin. Since his return to America
he has been connected with the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons.
His first volume, "The Human Fantasy", 1911, attracted attention
by the faithfulness with which it depicted the motley life of New York.
His second was "The Beloved Adventure", 1912; followed by
"Love and Liberation", 1913, and "Dust and Light", 1919.
The last volume, from which the selections in this anthology are taken,
contains some of Mr. Wheelock's finest lyrical work,
work full of the passion for beauty.
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