She has chosen to
consider
the work of six poets only, each of which she regards as a typical strand of that braid of woven strands which any poetic movement must needs be like.
Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets
Dante and his time; introd.
by A.
Heinemann, 1902.
Butler.
The form of the book interesting in itself. His close grip of the
man and his sympathetic pursuit of such slender biographical threads as history has preserved enable the reader to see vividly the time and the poet and to feel the action of the one upon the other with new understanding. —Spectator.
(Po
is
a
J.
a It
is
is a
a
it, a
42 POETRY AND POETS
259
Figgis, Darrell. Studies and appreciations. Dent, 1912.
260
Flamini, Francesco. Introduction to the study of the Divine Comedy; tr. by Freeman M. Josselyn. Ginn, 1910.
261
Freeman, John. The moderns; essays in literary criticism. Crowell, 1917.
Discerning and readable. — Booklist.
262
Gardner, Edmund Garratt. Dante. (Revision of his Dante primer) Dent, 1923.
263
Garnett, Richard. Essays of an ex-librarian. Heinemann, 1901.
264
Garrod, Heathcote William. Keats. Clarendon, 1926.
Since he is a critic of rich and fine equipment, the result is an essay hardly to be matched in English criticism for accuracy of analysis or completeness of comprehension. —Mark Van Doren.
265
Wordsworth; lectures and essays. Oxford, 1923.
An interesting and valuable book. —John Middleton Murry.
Notable in this that it provides more careful attention to Words worth's own sayings than other studies. —Literary Review.
266
Gay, Robert M. Emerson; a study of the poet as seer. Doubleday, 1928.
267
Glover, Terrot Reaveley. From Pericles to Philip. Mac- millan, 1917.
268
Poets and puritans. 2d ed. Methuen, 1916.
269
Goodell, Thomas Dwight. Athenian tragedy ; a study in pop
ular art. Yale, 1920.
A comprehensive account of the background, conventions, external and internal structure of Greek tragedy and a minutely detailed exposi tion of the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. — Catholic World.
STUDIES OF THE CHOSEN POETS 43
270
Gosse, Edmund. Questions at issue. Appleton, 1893.
271
Grandgent, Charles Hall. Dante. (Master spirits of liter
ature) Duffield, 1916.
A study of society and politics, church and state, learning and liter ature in Dante's age as depicted in the poet's writings. Authoritative and readable. —Booklist.
272
The ladies of Dante's lyrics. Harvard, 1917.
At first the reader is captivated by the charm of the style and the translation of the lyrics; it is only on reflection that he becomes aware of the masterly interpretation, based on long study of all Dante's work. —Dial.
273
Gum mere, Francis Barton. The beginnings of poetry. Mac-
millan, 1901.
By beginnings are meant the earliest actual appearances of poetry as an element in the social life of man, and not the origins or ultimate causes of poetic expression. — Author.
274
275
The popular ballad. Houghton, 1907.
Gwynn, Stephen. Thomas Moore. (English men of letters)
Macmillan, 1905.
The critical estimate of Moore's work is fully given, and his part in the last century's remarkable advance in poetical technique is enlarged upon. —Book Review Digest.
276
Hadow, Grace Eleanor. Chaucer and his times.
univ. lib. ) Holt, 1914.
A readable study, showing the poet's humor, drawing of character and
descriptive power.
277
Haight, Elizabeth Hazleton. Horace and his art of en
joyment. Dutton, 1925.
A skilfully constructed, vital portrait of the Roman poet and his philosophy of life against a background of Roman culture and of life on a Sabine farm. —Booklist.
278
Hamilton, Edith. The Greek way. Norton, 1930.
Delightful reading throughout—and good sound sense too. Of the greater writers who have discussed the Greek way of life and thought none has expressed himself in a manner more likely to appeal to the common reader. — Outlook.
(Home
44 POETRY AND POETS
278
Horridge, Frank. Lives of great Italians. Unwin, 1897.
280
Hudson, William Henry. Keats and his poetry. Harrap, 1912.
281
Hueffer, Francis. The troubadours; a history of Provencal
life and literature in the Middle Ages. Chatto, 1878.
282
Ingram, John H. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Little, 1898.
283
Jack, Adolphus Alfred. Poetry and prose; essays on mod
ern English poetry. Constable, 1911.
The virtue of his criticism resides in his intuitions, in his immediate sense of poetical values, in his spiritual tact and discrimination. —Nation.
284
Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse. Growth and influence of
classical Greek poetry. Houghton, 1893.
The aim is to exhibit concisely, but clearly, the leading character istics of the best classical Greek poets and to illustrate the place of ancient Greece in the general history of poetry. —Preface.
285
Homer; an introd. to the Iliad and the Odyssey. Mac- lehose, 1887.
It touches the general character of the poems, their_ value in illus trating early Greek history, their influence in the ancient world, the modern inquiry into their origin. —
As a preparation for study of Homer nothing could be better. Walter Leaf,
286 Henry. Jones,
1910.
Idealism as a practical creed. Maclehose,
Reflects the teachings of Hegel, Carlyle, Wordsworth and Browning, and gives the essence of their philosophy. —A. L. A. catalog, 1904-1911.
287
Jerrold, Maud F. Francesco Petrarca, poet and humanist.
Dent, 1909.
"The best all-round study in English on the subject. "
288
Kellett, Ernest Edward. Suggestions : literary essays. Cam
bridge, 1923.
They must have given pleasure whenever they fell into the hands of a reader who enjoys literary scholarship and precise criticism. —New Statesman.
STUDIES OF THE CHOSEN POETS 45 Kellow, Henry Arthur. Burns and his poetry. (Poetry and
Harrop, 1911.
289
life) 290
Ker, William
Charles Whibley. 2v. Macmillan, 1925.
Paton. Collected essays; ed. with introd. by
Epic and romance ; essays on medieval literature. Mac millan, 1897.
292
Kernahan, Coulson. Six famous living poets. Butterworth, 1922.
John Masefield, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Newbolt, Maurice Baring, Alfred Noyes, John Drinkwater.
293
Kittredge, George Lyman. Chaucer and his poetry. Har
vard, 1915.
An authoritative, discriminating and sympathetic study, fresh and readable in treatment.
294
Krutch, Joseph Wood. Edgar Allan Poe ; a study in genius.
Knopf, 1926.
Exceptionally intelligent and well-written, reconstructing from old theories a new idea of the poet. —A. L. A. catalog, 1926.
295
Lang, Andrew. Essays in little. Scribner, 1901.
296
Legouis, Emile. The early life of Wordsworth, 1770-1798; a
study of The Prelude; tr. by J. W. Matthews, with a prefa tory note by Leslie Stephen. Dent, 1921.
291
I can speak only in terms of the deepest admiration
yond praise. It has been perfectly translated. —George McLean Harper.
297
Geoffrey Chaucer; tr. by L. Lailavoix. Dutton, 1913.
An English version of one of the best introductions to the study of Chaucer. —Booklist.
298
Lord, Louis Eleazer. Aristophanes; his plays and his influ
ence. (Our debt to Greece and Rome) Marshall Jones, 1925.
Discusses the origin of Greek Comedy. , the Greek theater and the plays of Aristophanes and traces, later, his influence during the Renais sance and in modern literatures.
. . .
it is be
46 POETRY AND POETS
299
Lowell, Amy.
John Keats. 2v. Houghton, 1925.
A great and beauitful task. She has written not only by far the best biography of John Keats, the most complete, the most accurate, the most understanding, but she has written one of the best biographies in the English language. —Richard Le Gallienne.
300
Tendencies in modern American poetry. Macmillan, 1917.
She has chosen to consider the work of six poets only, each of which she regards as a typical strand of that braid of woven strands which any poetic movement must needs be like. They have one thread of color in common —revolt against the recent past of poetry.
301
Lowell, Tames
1890.
302
Russell. Literary essays. 4v. Houghton,
Lowes, John Livingston. The road to Xanadu; a study in the ways of the imagination. Houghton, 1927.
A fascinating and highly significant study of The ancient mariner, Kubla Khan and the workings of the imagination that produced them. . . . Marked by the wide reading, free from all pedantry, that gives to each chapter something new and strange; by the flood of light it casts on two of the greatest poems in our language and above all by its deep and absorbing human interest. —Yale Review.
303
Lynd, Robert. Books and authors. Putnam, 1923.
304
Mackail, John William. Latin literature. Scribner, 1895.
Fit to arouse the reader's enthusiasm by its glowing appreciation. — Grant Showerman.
305
Lectures on Greek poetry, new ed. Longmans, 1926.
The lucidity of its style and the consistent treatment of the poetry of Greece as a living thing give the volume interest. —N. Y. Times.
306
The springs of Helicon; a study in the progress of
English poetry from Chaucer to Milton. Longmans, 1909.
The subject suggests that all European poetry is connected with and indebted to Greece; and that English poetry especially is indebted to the Grecian stream from which it has borrowed, directly or indirectly at three turning points of its development — Chaucer, Spenser, Milton. — Catholic World.
307
308
STUDIES OF THE CHOSEN POETS 47 Studies of English poets. Longmans, 1926.
Virgil and his meaning to the world of to-day.
debt to Greece and Rome) Marshall Jones, 1922.
(Our
An eloquent study of the significance of Virgil to the twentieth cen
tury. — A. L. A. catalog, 1926.
309
William Morris ; life and letters. 2v. Longmans, 1899.
Besides being a storehouse upon which all writers on Morris must draw and remain thankful debtors, this is one of the most beautiful biographies in the language. —John Drinkwater.
310
Malory, Sir Thomas. Le morte d'Arthur. 2v. Dutton, 1906.
311
(Everyman)
Morte d'Arthur ; book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round Table; ed. by Sir Edward Strachey. Macmillan, 1897.
It was at the close of the age of chivalry that an English Knight, Sir
Thomas Malory, conceived the idea of rewriting the Arthurian story in his own language. He infused new and vigorous life into the ancient tales and clothed them in fine, simple, sonorous prose.
312
The boy's King Arthur; Sir Thomas Malory's history of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table; ed. for boys, with an introd. by Sidney Lanier, illus. by N. C. Wyeth. Scribner, 1917.
Mr. Lanier abridged the medieval story, modernized its spelling and provided it with scholarly notes. This edition is made still more at tractive by Wyeth's virile pictures in color.
313
Masefield, John. William Shakespeare. (Home univ. lib. ) Holt, 1911.
[He] manages to stimulate the mind of the reader as only the critics who are themselves poets can. . . . We are made in every page to feel the plays, to feel them as rich, splendid, joy-giving, wonder-producing things. —Times (L).
314
Maurois, Andre. Ariel; the life of Shelley; tr. by Ella
D'Arcy. Appleton, 1924
The ideal Shelley shines everywhere in the pages of M. Maurois and he ennobles our dull days by making us feel that the best thing in life is the undying effort to make it different. —Gamaliel Bradford.
48 POETRY AND POETS
315
Meynell, Everard. The life of Francis Thompson. Scribner, 1913.
A record of a rare and appealing personality, depicting the shy poet's life with its bitter experiences, its few strong friendships, its meager but poignant joys. —A. L. A. catalog, 1926.
316
Mims, Edwin. Sidney Lanier. Houghton, 1905.
The characteristics of this interesting volume are its picturesqueness, its simplicity, its fulness of detail and its dispassionate discussion of Lanier's claims to a permanent place among our American poets of fame. —Dial.
317
Morris, Lloyd. The poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Doran, 1923.
The discussion of Robinson's ideas, men, plays, legends, and history is plentifully illustrated with selections from his verse. —Bookman.
318
Moulton, Richard Green. The ancient classical drama; a study in literary evolution. 2d ed. Clarendon, 1898.
319
Murray, Gilbert. The classical tradition in poetry. 2d ed.
Harvard, 1930.
To enter on the pages of [this] book is to enter into a land of rare beauties and strange calm. One realizes anew that the classics should be read and pondered, if for no other reason, because of the spell of peace they cast. —N. Y. Times.
320
Euripides and his age. (Home univ. lib. ) Holt, 1913.
By that scholar, who, more than any other man, has in this generation restored "the most tragic of poets" to his proper place as a great drama tist and a great thinker. The author has given us of his best, but also in the best, because the simplest, shape. It is a model guide to a great sub j ect. —Spectator.
321
Murry, John Middleton. Keats and Shakespeare; a study
of Keats' poetic life from 1816-1820. Oxford, 1925.
It is an illuminating and deeply pondered study. . . . Mr. Murry has shown, without the shadow of a doubt, that in spirit and in act Keats is indeed not only with Shakespeare but like him. —Nation (L).
322
Myers, Frederick William Henry. Essays ; classical. Mac- millan, 1883.
323
STUDIES OF THE CHOSEN POETS 49
Neilson, William Allan. Robert Burns ; how to know him. Bobbs, 1917.
A very skilful, interesting and compact biography; a well-chosen and well-arranged selection of poems, with fairly numerous glosses in the margin to make clear the Scots dialect, make up a pleasant and useful volume.
324
Newbolt, Sir Henry. A new study of English poetry. Dut-
ton, 1919.
As a supreme vindication of the supreme place of poetry as poetry in human life, as a stimulus to critical thought and a guide to exquisite appreciation—of which his essay on Chaucer is an almost perfect ex ample — [it] deserves all the honor that lies in our power to give. —John Middleton Murry.
325
Nicolson, Harold. Swinburne. (English men of letters) Macmillan, 1926.
Mr. Nicolson writes with much vivacity, much critical acuteness and an enviable gift for apt and graceful quotation. —Saturday Review.
326
Tennyson, new ed. Houghton, 1925.
An acute and, in nearly every respect, a sympathetic piece of think ing. . . . But he should have remembered that Tennyson was not only the lyrist that he admits him to be, but a giant among the minds of a remarkable age. Had he done this he would not have marred what is otherwise a very beautiful piece of critical exposition. —John Drinkwater.
327
Noyes, Alfred. William Morris. (English men of letters) Macmillan, 1909.
More attention has been paid to the poetic spirit of Morris, to the discovery of the real self in his poetry, than to the vital facts of his career. —Book Review Digest.
328
Palmer, George Herbert. Formative types in English poetry.
Houghton, 1918.
I have wished to fix attention on the half-dozen fundamental, logical and productive crises which have brought us the rich poetry we now possess and may yet bring us richer still. —Preface.
The introductory chapter will delight every student of poetry for its clear analysis of poetic art. —Review of Reviews.
329
Phelps, William Lyon. The advance of English poetry in the twentieth century. Dodd, 1919.
SO POETRY AND POETS 330
Robert Browning; how to know him. Bobbs, 1915.
In great measure [it] fulfils [the need for] an explanatory com mentary on those poems of Browning which are most helpful to the average intelligent reader. It is in essence a very full anthology con taining a great deal of Browning's finest poetry. —Spectator.
331
Pound, Louise. Poetic origins and the ballad. Macmillan, 1921.
It seems, without dismissing historic study, to clear the way for a zestful and common-sense appreciation of ballads and other poems them selves. —North American.
332
Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur. Notes on Shakespeare's work
manship; from lectures [at Cambridge]. Holt, 1917.
These discourses seek to discover, in some of Shakespeare's plays, just what he was trying to do as a play-wright. —Preface.
333
On the art of reading. Putnam, 1920.
To communicate a gusto, a vivid and thrilling delight in literature for its own sake, as a delectable duchy where no passport, save the fact of your own enjoyment, is required, is a gift given to few. "Q" is among them. —A thenaeum.
334
Studies in literature. 2v. Cambridge, 1918.
These studies exhibit an engaging union of vivacity and good sense, fantasy and sanity. For the greater part his style is refreshingly alert and unacademic— Spectator.
335
Raleigh, Sir Walter. Milton.
Heinemann, 1902.
Butler.
The form of the book interesting in itself. His close grip of the
man and his sympathetic pursuit of such slender biographical threads as history has preserved enable the reader to see vividly the time and the poet and to feel the action of the one upon the other with new understanding. —Spectator.
(Po
is
a
J.
a It
is
is a
a
it, a
42 POETRY AND POETS
259
Figgis, Darrell. Studies and appreciations. Dent, 1912.
260
Flamini, Francesco. Introduction to the study of the Divine Comedy; tr. by Freeman M. Josselyn. Ginn, 1910.
261
Freeman, John. The moderns; essays in literary criticism. Crowell, 1917.
Discerning and readable. — Booklist.
262
Gardner, Edmund Garratt. Dante. (Revision of his Dante primer) Dent, 1923.
263
Garnett, Richard. Essays of an ex-librarian. Heinemann, 1901.
264
Garrod, Heathcote William. Keats. Clarendon, 1926.
Since he is a critic of rich and fine equipment, the result is an essay hardly to be matched in English criticism for accuracy of analysis or completeness of comprehension. —Mark Van Doren.
265
Wordsworth; lectures and essays. Oxford, 1923.
An interesting and valuable book. —John Middleton Murry.
Notable in this that it provides more careful attention to Words worth's own sayings than other studies. —Literary Review.
266
Gay, Robert M. Emerson; a study of the poet as seer. Doubleday, 1928.
267
Glover, Terrot Reaveley. From Pericles to Philip. Mac- millan, 1917.
268
Poets and puritans. 2d ed. Methuen, 1916.
269
Goodell, Thomas Dwight. Athenian tragedy ; a study in pop
ular art. Yale, 1920.
A comprehensive account of the background, conventions, external and internal structure of Greek tragedy and a minutely detailed exposi tion of the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. — Catholic World.
STUDIES OF THE CHOSEN POETS 43
270
Gosse, Edmund. Questions at issue. Appleton, 1893.
271
Grandgent, Charles Hall. Dante. (Master spirits of liter
ature) Duffield, 1916.
A study of society and politics, church and state, learning and liter ature in Dante's age as depicted in the poet's writings. Authoritative and readable. —Booklist.
272
The ladies of Dante's lyrics. Harvard, 1917.
At first the reader is captivated by the charm of the style and the translation of the lyrics; it is only on reflection that he becomes aware of the masterly interpretation, based on long study of all Dante's work. —Dial.
273
Gum mere, Francis Barton. The beginnings of poetry. Mac-
millan, 1901.
By beginnings are meant the earliest actual appearances of poetry as an element in the social life of man, and not the origins or ultimate causes of poetic expression. — Author.
274
275
The popular ballad. Houghton, 1907.
Gwynn, Stephen. Thomas Moore. (English men of letters)
Macmillan, 1905.
The critical estimate of Moore's work is fully given, and his part in the last century's remarkable advance in poetical technique is enlarged upon. —Book Review Digest.
276
Hadow, Grace Eleanor. Chaucer and his times.
univ. lib. ) Holt, 1914.
A readable study, showing the poet's humor, drawing of character and
descriptive power.
277
Haight, Elizabeth Hazleton. Horace and his art of en
joyment. Dutton, 1925.
A skilfully constructed, vital portrait of the Roman poet and his philosophy of life against a background of Roman culture and of life on a Sabine farm. —Booklist.
278
Hamilton, Edith. The Greek way. Norton, 1930.
Delightful reading throughout—and good sound sense too. Of the greater writers who have discussed the Greek way of life and thought none has expressed himself in a manner more likely to appeal to the common reader. — Outlook.
(Home
44 POETRY AND POETS
278
Horridge, Frank. Lives of great Italians. Unwin, 1897.
280
Hudson, William Henry. Keats and his poetry. Harrap, 1912.
281
Hueffer, Francis. The troubadours; a history of Provencal
life and literature in the Middle Ages. Chatto, 1878.
282
Ingram, John H. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Little, 1898.
283
Jack, Adolphus Alfred. Poetry and prose; essays on mod
ern English poetry. Constable, 1911.
The virtue of his criticism resides in his intuitions, in his immediate sense of poetical values, in his spiritual tact and discrimination. —Nation.
284
Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse. Growth and influence of
classical Greek poetry. Houghton, 1893.
The aim is to exhibit concisely, but clearly, the leading character istics of the best classical Greek poets and to illustrate the place of ancient Greece in the general history of poetry. —Preface.
285
Homer; an introd. to the Iliad and the Odyssey. Mac- lehose, 1887.
It touches the general character of the poems, their_ value in illus trating early Greek history, their influence in the ancient world, the modern inquiry into their origin. —
As a preparation for study of Homer nothing could be better. Walter Leaf,
286 Henry. Jones,
1910.
Idealism as a practical creed. Maclehose,
Reflects the teachings of Hegel, Carlyle, Wordsworth and Browning, and gives the essence of their philosophy. —A. L. A. catalog, 1904-1911.
287
Jerrold, Maud F. Francesco Petrarca, poet and humanist.
Dent, 1909.
"The best all-round study in English on the subject. "
288
Kellett, Ernest Edward. Suggestions : literary essays. Cam
bridge, 1923.
They must have given pleasure whenever they fell into the hands of a reader who enjoys literary scholarship and precise criticism. —New Statesman.
STUDIES OF THE CHOSEN POETS 45 Kellow, Henry Arthur. Burns and his poetry. (Poetry and
Harrop, 1911.
289
life) 290
Ker, William
Charles Whibley. 2v. Macmillan, 1925.
Paton. Collected essays; ed. with introd. by
Epic and romance ; essays on medieval literature. Mac millan, 1897.
292
Kernahan, Coulson. Six famous living poets. Butterworth, 1922.
John Masefield, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Newbolt, Maurice Baring, Alfred Noyes, John Drinkwater.
293
Kittredge, George Lyman. Chaucer and his poetry. Har
vard, 1915.
An authoritative, discriminating and sympathetic study, fresh and readable in treatment.
294
Krutch, Joseph Wood. Edgar Allan Poe ; a study in genius.
Knopf, 1926.
Exceptionally intelligent and well-written, reconstructing from old theories a new idea of the poet. —A. L. A. catalog, 1926.
295
Lang, Andrew. Essays in little. Scribner, 1901.
296
Legouis, Emile. The early life of Wordsworth, 1770-1798; a
study of The Prelude; tr. by J. W. Matthews, with a prefa tory note by Leslie Stephen. Dent, 1921.
291
I can speak only in terms of the deepest admiration
yond praise. It has been perfectly translated. —George McLean Harper.
297
Geoffrey Chaucer; tr. by L. Lailavoix. Dutton, 1913.
An English version of one of the best introductions to the study of Chaucer. —Booklist.
298
Lord, Louis Eleazer. Aristophanes; his plays and his influ
ence. (Our debt to Greece and Rome) Marshall Jones, 1925.
Discusses the origin of Greek Comedy. , the Greek theater and the plays of Aristophanes and traces, later, his influence during the Renais sance and in modern literatures.
. . .
it is be
46 POETRY AND POETS
299
Lowell, Amy.
John Keats. 2v. Houghton, 1925.
A great and beauitful task. She has written not only by far the best biography of John Keats, the most complete, the most accurate, the most understanding, but she has written one of the best biographies in the English language. —Richard Le Gallienne.
300
Tendencies in modern American poetry. Macmillan, 1917.
She has chosen to consider the work of six poets only, each of which she regards as a typical strand of that braid of woven strands which any poetic movement must needs be like. They have one thread of color in common —revolt against the recent past of poetry.
301
Lowell, Tames
1890.
302
Russell. Literary essays. 4v. Houghton,
Lowes, John Livingston. The road to Xanadu; a study in the ways of the imagination. Houghton, 1927.
A fascinating and highly significant study of The ancient mariner, Kubla Khan and the workings of the imagination that produced them. . . . Marked by the wide reading, free from all pedantry, that gives to each chapter something new and strange; by the flood of light it casts on two of the greatest poems in our language and above all by its deep and absorbing human interest. —Yale Review.
303
Lynd, Robert. Books and authors. Putnam, 1923.
304
Mackail, John William. Latin literature. Scribner, 1895.
Fit to arouse the reader's enthusiasm by its glowing appreciation. — Grant Showerman.
305
Lectures on Greek poetry, new ed. Longmans, 1926.
The lucidity of its style and the consistent treatment of the poetry of Greece as a living thing give the volume interest. —N. Y. Times.
306
The springs of Helicon; a study in the progress of
English poetry from Chaucer to Milton. Longmans, 1909.
The subject suggests that all European poetry is connected with and indebted to Greece; and that English poetry especially is indebted to the Grecian stream from which it has borrowed, directly or indirectly at three turning points of its development — Chaucer, Spenser, Milton. — Catholic World.
307
308
STUDIES OF THE CHOSEN POETS 47 Studies of English poets. Longmans, 1926.
Virgil and his meaning to the world of to-day.
debt to Greece and Rome) Marshall Jones, 1922.
(Our
An eloquent study of the significance of Virgil to the twentieth cen
tury. — A. L. A. catalog, 1926.
309
William Morris ; life and letters. 2v. Longmans, 1899.
Besides being a storehouse upon which all writers on Morris must draw and remain thankful debtors, this is one of the most beautiful biographies in the language. —John Drinkwater.
310
Malory, Sir Thomas. Le morte d'Arthur. 2v. Dutton, 1906.
311
(Everyman)
Morte d'Arthur ; book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round Table; ed. by Sir Edward Strachey. Macmillan, 1897.
It was at the close of the age of chivalry that an English Knight, Sir
Thomas Malory, conceived the idea of rewriting the Arthurian story in his own language. He infused new and vigorous life into the ancient tales and clothed them in fine, simple, sonorous prose.
312
The boy's King Arthur; Sir Thomas Malory's history of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table; ed. for boys, with an introd. by Sidney Lanier, illus. by N. C. Wyeth. Scribner, 1917.
Mr. Lanier abridged the medieval story, modernized its spelling and provided it with scholarly notes. This edition is made still more at tractive by Wyeth's virile pictures in color.
313
Masefield, John. William Shakespeare. (Home univ. lib. ) Holt, 1911.
[He] manages to stimulate the mind of the reader as only the critics who are themselves poets can. . . . We are made in every page to feel the plays, to feel them as rich, splendid, joy-giving, wonder-producing things. —Times (L).
314
Maurois, Andre. Ariel; the life of Shelley; tr. by Ella
D'Arcy. Appleton, 1924
The ideal Shelley shines everywhere in the pages of M. Maurois and he ennobles our dull days by making us feel that the best thing in life is the undying effort to make it different. —Gamaliel Bradford.
48 POETRY AND POETS
315
Meynell, Everard. The life of Francis Thompson. Scribner, 1913.
A record of a rare and appealing personality, depicting the shy poet's life with its bitter experiences, its few strong friendships, its meager but poignant joys. —A. L. A. catalog, 1926.
316
Mims, Edwin. Sidney Lanier. Houghton, 1905.
The characteristics of this interesting volume are its picturesqueness, its simplicity, its fulness of detail and its dispassionate discussion of Lanier's claims to a permanent place among our American poets of fame. —Dial.
317
Morris, Lloyd. The poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Doran, 1923.
The discussion of Robinson's ideas, men, plays, legends, and history is plentifully illustrated with selections from his verse. —Bookman.
318
Moulton, Richard Green. The ancient classical drama; a study in literary evolution. 2d ed. Clarendon, 1898.
319
Murray, Gilbert. The classical tradition in poetry. 2d ed.
Harvard, 1930.
To enter on the pages of [this] book is to enter into a land of rare beauties and strange calm. One realizes anew that the classics should be read and pondered, if for no other reason, because of the spell of peace they cast. —N. Y. Times.
320
Euripides and his age. (Home univ. lib. ) Holt, 1913.
By that scholar, who, more than any other man, has in this generation restored "the most tragic of poets" to his proper place as a great drama tist and a great thinker. The author has given us of his best, but also in the best, because the simplest, shape. It is a model guide to a great sub j ect. —Spectator.
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Murry, John Middleton. Keats and Shakespeare; a study
of Keats' poetic life from 1816-1820. Oxford, 1925.
It is an illuminating and deeply pondered study. . . . Mr. Murry has shown, without the shadow of a doubt, that in spirit and in act Keats is indeed not only with Shakespeare but like him. —Nation (L).
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Myers, Frederick William Henry. Essays ; classical. Mac- millan, 1883.
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Neilson, William Allan. Robert Burns ; how to know him. Bobbs, 1917.
A very skilful, interesting and compact biography; a well-chosen and well-arranged selection of poems, with fairly numerous glosses in the margin to make clear the Scots dialect, make up a pleasant and useful volume.
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Newbolt, Sir Henry. A new study of English poetry. Dut-
ton, 1919.
As a supreme vindication of the supreme place of poetry as poetry in human life, as a stimulus to critical thought and a guide to exquisite appreciation—of which his essay on Chaucer is an almost perfect ex ample — [it] deserves all the honor that lies in our power to give. —John Middleton Murry.
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Nicolson, Harold. Swinburne. (English men of letters) Macmillan, 1926.
Mr. Nicolson writes with much vivacity, much critical acuteness and an enviable gift for apt and graceful quotation. —Saturday Review.
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Tennyson, new ed. Houghton, 1925.
An acute and, in nearly every respect, a sympathetic piece of think ing. . . . But he should have remembered that Tennyson was not only the lyrist that he admits him to be, but a giant among the minds of a remarkable age. Had he done this he would not have marred what is otherwise a very beautiful piece of critical exposition. —John Drinkwater.
327
Noyes, Alfred. William Morris. (English men of letters) Macmillan, 1909.
More attention has been paid to the poetic spirit of Morris, to the discovery of the real self in his poetry, than to the vital facts of his career. —Book Review Digest.
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Palmer, George Herbert. Formative types in English poetry.
Houghton, 1918.
I have wished to fix attention on the half-dozen fundamental, logical and productive crises which have brought us the rich poetry we now possess and may yet bring us richer still. —Preface.
The introductory chapter will delight every student of poetry for its clear analysis of poetic art. —Review of Reviews.
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Phelps, William Lyon. The advance of English poetry in the twentieth century. Dodd, 1919.
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Robert Browning; how to know him. Bobbs, 1915.
In great measure [it] fulfils [the need for] an explanatory com mentary on those poems of Browning which are most helpful to the average intelligent reader. It is in essence a very full anthology con taining a great deal of Browning's finest poetry. —Spectator.
331
Pound, Louise. Poetic origins and the ballad. Macmillan, 1921.
It seems, without dismissing historic study, to clear the way for a zestful and common-sense appreciation of ballads and other poems them selves. —North American.
332
Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur. Notes on Shakespeare's work
manship; from lectures [at Cambridge]. Holt, 1917.
These discourses seek to discover, in some of Shakespeare's plays, just what he was trying to do as a play-wright. —Preface.
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On the art of reading. Putnam, 1920.
To communicate a gusto, a vivid and thrilling delight in literature for its own sake, as a delectable duchy where no passport, save the fact of your own enjoyment, is required, is a gift given to few. "Q" is among them. —A thenaeum.
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Studies in literature. 2v. Cambridge, 1918.
These studies exhibit an engaging union of vivacity and good sense, fantasy and sanity. For the greater part his style is refreshingly alert and unacademic— Spectator.
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