...L. W. Payne, Jr. Copyright © 1909 by Duke University Press 1909 A New Southern Poet, Stark Young of Mississippi By L. W. Payne, Jr. Instructor in English in the University of Texas Stark Young, of Mississippi, has published two small volumes of verse, The Blind Man at the Window...

...Harold T. Parker Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855): Poet, Traveler, Dreamer . By Rhodes S. A. . New York : Philosophical Library , 1951 . Pp. ix , 416 . $4.75 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 446 The South Atlantic Quarterly rect way to seek the truth. Academic...

...Maria Damon Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Maria Damon Unmeaning Jargon /Uncanonized Beatitude: Bob Kaufman, Poet If reality is taken only as it is given in the im­ mediate impression, if it is regarded as sufficiently certified by the power it exerts on the perceptive...

...Massimo Bacigalupo Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 The Poet at War: Ezra Pound s Suppressed Italian Cantos Massimo Bacigalupo Pound s plans of 1939-41 for the paradiso of the Cantos are familiar to readers of the Letters and of Charles Norman s and Noel Stock s biogra­ phies...

...Robert T. Kerlin Copyright © 1921 by Duke University Press 1921 A Poet From Bardstown Robert T. Rerun Lexington, Virginia On the Kentucky plantation where Stephen Collins Foster one June morning, when the mocking birds were singing and the darkies were gay, composed and his sister sang, My...

...Kate White Copyright © 1919 by Duke University Press 1919 Father Ryan--The Poet-Priest of the South Kate White Ah me! without trying by merely Being gentle and human and tender to Souls astray, what good a priest Can do! Yours ever faithfully. Abram J. Ryan. Saintly souls have intuitions...

...H. Houston Peckham Copyright © 1913 by Duke University Press 1913 John Clare, A Forgotten NineteenthCentury Poet H. Houston Peckham That John Clare has been virtually forgotten is to my mind one of the greatest anomalies in literary history. At the present time it is difficult to find...

...Louis C. Zucker Copyright © 1922 by Duke University Press 1922 The Art of a Minor Poet Louis C. Zucker The University of Wisconsin FRANCIS LEDWIDGE was born of Irish peas­ ants in Slane, a village the quintessence of pastoral Meath. At sixteen, he was in Dublin, a grocer s clerk; but he broke...

...Francis Taylor Long Copyright © 1918 by Duke University Press 1918 A Floridian Poet* By Francis Taylor Long Professor of English in Southern College, Sutherland, Florida Florida, when compared with the states that are better known for both their past and their present contributions...

...H. E. Harman Copyright © 1918 by Duke University Press 1918 Joel Chandler Harris: The Prose Poet of the South H. E. Harman Author of "Idle Dreams of an Idle Day Born a poet, though choosing to give expression to his over­ flowing soul through the medium of prose, aptly outlines the place...

...J. P. Simmons Copyright © 1929 by Duke University Press 1929 EDWARD COOTE PINKNEY AMERICAN CAVALIER POET J. P. SIMMONS Baylor University LMOST alone among American poets of whatever rank, Edward Coote Pinkney wrote his exquisite lyrics with­ out reference to Puritanism. Other American writers...

...Alan Jenkins Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 PORTRAIT OF A POET AT COLLEGE ALAN JENKINS IN SEPTEMBER, 1898, Charles August Sandburg, later to be known as Carl Sandburg, entered Lombard College, Galesburg, Illinois, as a liberal arts student. Twenty years old, he had just...

...Aubrey Starke Copyright © 1936 by Duke University Press 1936 ANNULET ANDREWS POET AUBREY STARKE A NNULET ANDREWS S recent novel, Melissa Starke, 21is a fine and convincing story of a Georgia girl who escaped by means of her literary talent from the social in­ quisition that was the tarlatan...

...Murray D. Welch Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 JAMES NORMAN HALL: POET AND PHILOSOPHER MURRAY D. WELCH MOST READERS who know of Janies Norman Hall think of him as an associate of Charles A. Nordhoff and co-author of three interesting sea tales, Mutiny on the Bounty, Men...

...Annette B. Hopkins Copyright © 1931 by Duke University Press 1931 THE POET LAUREATE OF HOPE END ANNETTE B. HOPKINS T NOW read to gain ideas, not to indulge my fancy, wrote X fourteen year old Elizabeth Barrett in Glimpses into my own Life and Literary character,1 describing herself...

...John S. Curtiss Taras Shevchenko, the Poet of Ukraine: Selected Poems . Translated with an Introduction by Manning Clarence A. . Jersey City : Ukrainian National Association , 1945 . Pp. iii , 217 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 402 The South Atlantic...

...J. L. Rose Ovid: A Poet between Two Worlds . By Fränkel Hermann . Sather Classical Lectures. Volume XVIII . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1945 . Pp. viii , 282 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 246 The South Atlantic...

...John W. Stevenson A. E. Housman, Scholar and Poet . By Marlow Norman . Minneapolis : The University of Minnesota Press , 1958 . Pp. viii , 192 . $3.50 . A. E. Housman: Man Behind a Mask . By Hawkins Maude M. . Chicago : Henry Regnery Company , 1958 . Pp. xii , 292...

...Robert H. Woody George Sandys, Poet-Adventurer: A Study in Anglo-American Culture in the Seventeenth Century . By Davis Richard Beale . London : The Bodley Head ; New York : Columbia University Press , 1955 . Pp. 320 . $4.75 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957...

...Edd Winfield Parks Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE POET Edd Winfield Parks THE CHARACTERIZATION of Emily Dickinson as a Whit­ man in little lace mitts in intriguing and memorable because it gnomicly states a sound quarter-truth. This does not imply...