...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Richard Harter Fogle Keats the Poet . By Sperry Stewart M. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1973 . Pp. ix , 350 . $13.00 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 276 The South Atlantic Quarterly Van Winkle. In this detailed and exhaustively researched biog­...

... and persuasive though at the cost of occasional use of infer­ ence and conjecture as if fact. The book is very readable and very informative. The work was first published in 1940, a revised version following in 1946. This is the first American printing. DUKE UNIVERSITY BENJAMIN BOYCE The Poet and His Faith...

...J. Albert Robbins Edgar Poe the Poet: Essays New and Old on the Man and His Work . By Stovall Floyd . Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia , 1969 . Pp. xi , 273 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 296 The South Atlantic Quarterly painting...

...Thomas Daniel Young Philip Pendleton Cooke: Poet, Critic, Novelist . Edited by Allen John D. . Johnson City : Publications of the East Tennessee State University Research Advisory Council , 1969 . Pp. xxxi , 343 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 424...

...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...

...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...

...Gordon K. Grigsby Ezra Pound: Poet as Sculptor . By Davie Donald . New York : Oxford University Press , 1964 . Pp. 261 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Book Reviews 423 and individually tragic about war; that pity was the only positive reaction possible...