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
having made admirable renderings of Gustaf Fr|"oding, 1916,
"Abelard and H|/eloise: A Drama", 1907. Since Mr. Torrence published
of the Nicaraguan poet, Rub|/en Dario. Mr. Walsh is much interested
in Germany, studying during 1909 at G|"ottingen and during 1910
the Sorbonne and the Biblioth|\eque Nationale of Paris.
Also all occurences of Ben|/et (Stephen Vincent & William Rose Ben|/et)
and of Zo|"e for Zo|"e Akins.
The Acknowledgements section has been omitted.
Corrections to the text:
(These were checked against copies of the volumes from which
the poems were extracted.)
Spoon River Anthology. [Edgar Lee Masters]
"As Bryon's did, in song, in something noble,"
changed to
"As Byron's did, in song, in something noble,"
Abraham Lincoln walks at Midnight. [Vachel Lindsay]
added subtitle: (In Springfield, Illinois)
"A famous high-top hat and plain worn shawl"
changed to
"A famous high top-hat and plain worn shawl"
"The prairie lawyer, master of us all."
changed to
"The prairie-lawyer, master of us all."
Apology. [Amy Lowell]
"You blazen me with jewelled insignia."
changed to
"You blazon me with jewelled insignia."
Biographical Notes:
"H. D." was incorrectly identified as "Helena Doolittle".
This has been corrected to "Hilda Doolittle".
In addition, some information was added to the Biographical Notes,
most notably dates for each author (when available) and which ones
won a Pulitzer Prize, and in which year(s).
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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