The title piece in this volume is a dramatic poem of sixty pages, the action of which takes place in the time of Christ. The characters introduced include Pontius Pilate, Joseph of Ramah and Herod. The play, for it is really such, is written in rhyme and is one of Mr. Masefield's most interesting and important contributions to literature. In addition to this there are in the book many sonnets and short poems.
"Reveals an interesting development in poetic thought and expression ... a new Masefield ... who has never written with more dignity, nor with more artistry. Those who go in quest of Beauty will find her here.... Here is beauty of impression, beauty of expression, beauty of thought, and beauty of phrase."—The New York Times.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York
The Man Against the Sky
By EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON
Author of "The Porcupine," "Captain Craig and Other Poems," etc.
Cloth, 12mo, $1.00
It has been some years since Mr. Robinson has given us a new collection of poems. Those who remember "Captain Craig and Other Poems," a volume which brought to its author the heartiest of congratulations, placing him at once in the rank of those American writers whose contributions to literature are of permanent value, will welcome this new work and will find that their anticipation of it and hopes for it are to be pleasantly realized. It is a book which well carries out that early promise and which helps to maintain Mr. Robinson's position in letters to-day.