The Younger American Poets

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Younger American Poets, by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

THE YOUNGER AMERICAN POETS
ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS
BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1904
Copyright, 1904, By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published October, 1904
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE, MASS., U. S. A.
LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON
WHO HAS ENRICHED AMERICAN LITERATURE WITH HER SONG, AND MY LIFE WITH HER FRIENDSHIP, THESE STUDIES OF THE YOUNGER POETS ARE INSCRIBED WITH THE WARM AFFECTION OF JESSIE B. RITTENHOUSE
TO attempt, in one volume, to cover the entire field of present-day poetry in America, will be recognized the more readily as impossible when one reflects that in Mr. Stedman’s American Anthology over five hundred poets are represented, of whom the greater number are still living and singing.