文档介绍：The Little Book of Modern Verse A Selection from the work of contemporaneous American
poets
The Little Book of
Modern Verse
A Selection from the work of
contemporaneous American poets
Edited by Jessie B. Rittenhouse [Selections made
in 1913.]
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The Little Book of Modern Verse A Selection from the work of contemporaneous American
poets
Foreword
"The Little Book of Modern Verse", as its name implies, is not a
formal anthology. The pageant of American poetry has been so often
presented that no necessity exists for another exhaustive review of the art.
Nearly all anthologies, however, stop short of the present group of poets,
or represent them so inadequately that only those in close touch with the
trend of American literature know what the poet of to-day is contributing
to it.
It is strictly, then, as a reflection of our own period, to show what is
being done by the essors of our earlier poets, what new interpretation
they are giving to life, what new beauty they have apprehended, what new
art they have evolved, that this little book has taken form. A few of the
poets included have been writing for a quarter of a century, and were,
therefore, among the immediate essors of the New England group, but
many have done their work within the past decade and the volume as a
whole represents the twentieth-century spirit.
From the scheme of the book, that of a small, intimate collection,
representative rather than exhaustive, it has been impossible to include all
of the poets who would naturally be included in a more ambitious
anthology. In certain instances, also, matters of copyright have deterred
me from including those whom I had originally intended to represent, but
with isolated exceptions the little book covers the work of our later poets
and gives a hint of what they are doing.
I have attempted, as far as possible, to unify the collection by
arranging the poems so that each should set the keynote to the next, or at
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