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
Fletcher, John Gould. [1886-1950] (2)
Born at Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 3, 1886. He was educated
in the public schools of Little Rock, in Phillips Academy, Andover,
and at Harvard University, but becoming restive under the formal curriculum
did not stay to take his degree, but went instead to Europe where
he might find an atmosphere more in harmony with his tastes and interests.
Italy first attracted him and he remained there for several years,
but went in May of 1909 to London where he has spent most of the time
since that date. In 1913 he published five small books of verse,
all of which are now out of print, but it was not until
the publication of "Irradiations -- Sand and Spray" in America in 1915
that his true poetic quality was evident. In the same year
several poems of his appeared in "Some Imagist Poets",
the first joint collection of the Imagist group, which embraced the work
of Amy Lowell, Richard Aldington, "H. D.", F. S. Flint, D. H. Lawrence,
and Mr. Fletcher himself. This allied him with the Imagist movement,
though his work was too individual to conform to any school.
The war drove Mr. Fletcher back to America where he remained two years,
and in April of 1916 he published in this country "Goblins and Pagodas";
the following month he returned to England and married
Miss Florence Emily Arbuthnot. He continues to make England his home
and brought out there his latest volume, "The Tree of Life".
[John Gould Fletcher won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1939
for "Selected Poems". -- A. L., 1998.]
Foster, Jeanne Robert. [1879-1970] (1)
Born in the Adirondack Mountains in the town of Johnsburg, N.Y.,
of English and French stock. Attended the schools of the neighborhood
and at the age of sixteen began teaching. Two years later
she came to New York, studied at the Stanhope-Wheatcroft Dramatic School,
and played upon the stage for one year. Not satisfied
with this life, however, she went to Boston, took special courses
in the Radcliffe-Harvard Extension and at Boston University,
and began writing for the press. Married Matlock Foster
and came to New York in 1911 where she became associated with
the `Review of Reviews' as literary editor, holding this position
until 1919. Mrs. Foster has published two books of verse,
"Wild Apples" and "Neighbors of Yesterday", both 1916. In the latter
she writes, with much narrative skill, of the isolated mountain folk
whom she knew in her girlhood.
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