younger poets to group them into schools, to define them in relation to one another, or to hazard prophecies concerning them. Each is considered in his present accomplishment, whether the work be fresh from the pen, or come bringing with it the endorsement of time, since the song of yesterday may carry farther than that already borne on the wings of the years, and has equal claim to consideration in a volume devoted to the work of the younger singers; for only by such consideration shall we learn what is being done in our own day.

J. B. R.

CONTENTS
Page
Foreword[vii]
I.Richard Hovey[1]
II.Lizette Woodworth Reese[27]
III.Bliss Carman[46]
IV.Louise Imogen Guiney[75]
V.George E. Santayana[94]
VI.Josephine Preston Peabody[110]
VII.Charles G. D. Roberts[132]
VIII.Edith M. Thomas[151]
IX.Madison Cawein[177]
X.George E. Woodberry[196]
XI.Frederic Lawrence Knowles[212]
XII.Alice Brown[235]
XIII.Richard Burton[248]
XIV.Clinton Scollard[269]
XV.Mary McNeil Fenollosa[290]
XVI.Ridgely Torrence[299]
XVII.Gertrude Hall[315]
XVIII.Arthur Upson[325]
Biographical Index[347]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Richard Hovey[Frontispiece]
Lizette Woodworth ReeseFacing page[28]
Bliss Carman “  “[48]
Louise Imogen Guiney “  “[76]
Josephine Preston Peabody “  “[112]
Charles G. D. Roberts “  “[134]
Madison Cawein “  “[178]
George E. Woodberry “  “[198]
Frederic Lawrence Knowles “  “[214]
Alice Brown “  “[236]
Richard Burton “  “[250]
Clinton Scollard “  “[270]
Mary McNeil Fenollosa “  “[292]
Ridgely Torrence “  “[300]

The

Younger American Poets

I

RICHARD HOVEY

RICHARD HOVEY was a poet of convictions rather than of fancies, in which regard he overtopped many of his contemporaries who were content to be “enamored architects of airy rhyme.” Hovey was himself a skilful architect of rhyme, an imaginative weaver of fancy; but these were not ends, he does not stand primarily for them. He stands for comradeship; for taking vows of one’s own soul; for alliance with the shaping spirit of things; for a sane, wholesome, lusty manhood; a hearty, confident surrender to life.

He is the poet of positivism, virile, objective, and personal to a Whitmanesque degree, and answers to many of the qualifications laid down by Whitman for the testing of an American poet. His performance is eminently