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
Driscoll, Louise. [1875-1957] (1)
Born in Poughkeepsie, educated by private teachers and in the public schools
of Catskill, N.Y. Miss Driscoll first attracted attention
by a poem called "Metal Checks" which received a prize of $100 offered by
`Poetry: A Magazine of Verse', for the best poem on the European war.
Since then Miss Driscoll has been a constant contributor
to the best magazines, but has not yet published a collection of her verse.
Ficke, Arthur Davison. [1883-1945] (2)
Born Davenport, Iowa, Nov. 10, 1883. Educated at Harvard University
where he graduated in 1904. Later he studied at the College of Law
of the Iowa State University and was admitted to the bar in 1908.
In 1907 he married Evelyn Bethune Blunt, of Springfield, Mass.
Mr. Ficke has published many books of verse of which the best-known
are "The Earth Passion", 1908; "Sonnets of a Portrait Painter", 1914;
"The Man on the Hilltop", 1915; "An April Elegy", 1917. Mr. Ficke has
also written two volumes upon "Japanese Painting" and "Japanese Prints",
in part the outcome of a trip to Japan, taken in company
with his friend Witter Bynner. As mentioned in the sketch of Mr. Bynner,
Mr. Ficke was associated with him in writing the volume, "Spectra".
Fisher, Mahlon Leonard. [1874-?] (2)
Born in Williamsport, Pa., July 20, 1874. Educated in private study
and in the schools of his native city. Mr. Fisher took up architecture
and practiced this profession for seventeen years, but although
he still retains connection with it in a consulting capacity, he has given up
its active practice to be the publisher and editor of a small magazine
called `The Sonnet', which he founded. Mr. Fisher has written
some of the finest sonnets that have appeared in America in recent years
and has brought out the first collection of them under the title,
"Sonnets: A First Series", 1918.
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