The response of poets on both sides of the Atlantic has been most encouraging, so that the quality of the next few numbers is assured. One of our most important contributions is Mr. John G. Neihardt's brief recently finished tragedy, The Death of Agrippina, to which an entire number will be devoted within a few months.
Mr. Joseph Campbell is one of the younger poets closely associated with the renaissance of art and letters in Ireland. His first book of poems was The Gilly of Christ; a later volume including these is The Mountainy Singer (Maunsel & Co.).
Mr. Charles Hanson Towne, the New York poet and magazine editor, has published three volumes of verse, The Quiet Singer (Rickey), Manhattan, and Youth and Other Poems; also five song-cycles in collaboration with two composers.
Mr. Richard Aldington is a young English poet, one of the "Imagistes," a group of ardent Hellenists who are pursuing interesting experiments in vers libre; trying to attain in English certain subtleties of cadence of the kind which Mallarmé and his followers have studied in French. Mr. Aldington has published little as yet, and nothing in America.
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, the well-known writer on art, began comparatively late to publish verse in the magazines. Her volume, Poems (Macmillan), was issued in 1910.
Miss Long and Miss Widdemer are young Americans, some of whose poems have appeared in various magazines.
The last issue of Poetry accredited Mr. Ezra Pound's Provenca to the Houghton-Mifflin Co. This was an error; Small, Maynard & Co. are Mr. Pound's American publishers.
BOOKS RECEIVED
The Iscariot, by Eden Phillpotts. John Lane. The Poems of Rosamund Marriott Watson. John Lane. Lyrical Poems, by Lucy Lyttelton. Thomas B. Mosher. The Silence of Amor, by Fiona Macleod, Thomas B. Mosher. Spring in Tuscany and Other Lyrics. Thomas B. Mosher. Interpretations: A Book of First Poems, by Zoë Akins. Mitchell Kennerley. A Round of Rimes, by Denis A. MacCarthy. Little, Brown & Co. Voices from Erin and Other Poems, by Denis A. MacCarthy. Little, Brown & Co. Love and The Year and Other Poems, by Grace Griswold. Duffield & Co. Songs and Sonnets, by Webster Ford. The Rooks Press, Chicago. The Quiet Courage and Other Songs of the Unafraid, by Everard Jack Appleton. Stewart and Kidd Co. In Cupid's Chains and Other Poems, by Benjamin F. Woodcox. Woodcox & Fanner. Maverick, by Hervey White. Maverick Press.