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ERSKINE, JOHN. Kinds of poetry, and other essays. *$1.50 Duffield 808.1
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Poetry, the author holds, is not subject to evolution in its essence but is an unchanging function of an unchanging life and its three genres, the lyrical, the dramatic and the epic, are comparable to the three eternal ways of meeting experience: “as simply a present moment, or as a present moment in which the past is reaped, or as a present moment in which the future is promised.” The other essays of the volume are: The teaching of poetry; The new poetry; Scholarship and poetry.
+ Booklist 17:21 O ’20
“Of great value to all lovers of poetry is Mr Erskine’s book. His criticism is keen and trenchant and happily expressed in a style peculiarly his own.” C. K. H.
+ Boston Transcript p4 O 27 ’20 490w
“When his moral prejudices are not in the way, Mr Erskine is a sound writer.” Llewellyn Jones
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