That ought to be sufficient for those
American
Intellectuals who are bemoaning the deca dence of poetry.
Contemporary Verse - v01-02
Copyright, 1916, by the editors, trading as CONTEMPORARY VERSE.
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THE CONTRIBUTORS
Scudder Middleton's poem, 'The Clerk," published in the June number of Contemporary Verse, is ranked in "An Anthology of Magazine Verse" as one of the thirty most distinguished poems published in the United States in 1916. Other previous contributors are Marguerite Wilkin son, John Hall Wheelock, Louis Ginsberg, Fhoebe Hcffman, John Russell McCarthy and Marjorie Allen Seiffert. Jeannette Marks, novelist, as well as poet, is a member of the faculty of Mt. Holyoke College. Leslie Nelson Jennings makes his home in California. Mary Morris Duane is a Phila- delphian. Abigail Fithian Halsey makes her home in Southampton, Long Island. Samuel Roth writes from New York. Marx Sabel's home is in Jacksonville, Florida. John Masefield is the author of "The Widow in the the Bye Street," "Good Friday," "The Everlasting Mercy," "Saltwater Ballads," "The Tragedy of Nan," and other volumes.
Here critics say
"The contents are of very good
Contemporary Verse.
"Slender in bulk—but it contains good poems. "
— New Orleans, Louisiana, Times-Picayune
" 'Contemporary Verse' is here, and, we hope, to stay. It came without a flourish — dimply print ed some very good contributions.
That ought to be sufficient for those American Intellectuals who are bemoaning the deca dence of poetry. "
—The Rochester Herald, Rochester, New York
— The Literary Digest, New York Rates, $1. 50 a year
Address: 622 South Washington Square, Philadelphia
quality indeed. "
— Current Opinion, New
York
"Each contribution is a gem. " —Sioux City, Iowa, Daily Tribune
"Has in it finer stuff than we've seen in many another more pre tentious journal. "
—T. A. Daly,
Philadelphia Evening Ledger
"All the contents are interesting. " —Chicago Record-Herald
"Its poetry is admirably selected
to find any other American magazine verse more notable for originality and imagination. . . . "
It would be difficult
Application for entry at Second Clan matter at the Post Office i
By JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
Love and Liberation $1. 50 net
"Sleep on, I lie at heaven's high oriels Over the stars that mumur as they go Lighting your lattice window (ar b low;
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof I know.
I have forgotten you long, long ago.
Like the sweet, silver singing of thin bells Vanished, or music fading faint and low.
16
THE CONTRIBUTORS
Scudder Middleton's poem, 'The Clerk," published in the June number of Contemporary Verse, is ranked in "An Anthology of Magazine Verse" as one of the thirty most distinguished poems published in the United States in 1916. Other previous contributors are Marguerite Wilkin son, John Hall Wheelock, Louis Ginsberg, Fhoebe Hcffman, John Russell McCarthy and Marjorie Allen Seiffert. Jeannette Marks, novelist, as well as poet, is a member of the faculty of Mt. Holyoke College. Leslie Nelson Jennings makes his home in California. Mary Morris Duane is a Phila- delphian. Abigail Fithian Halsey makes her home in Southampton, Long Island. Samuel Roth writes from New York. Marx Sabel's home is in Jacksonville, Florida. John Masefield is the author of "The Widow in the the Bye Street," "Good Friday," "The Everlasting Mercy," "Saltwater Ballads," "The Tragedy of Nan," and other volumes.
Here critics say
"The contents are of very good
Contemporary Verse.
"Slender in bulk—but it contains good poems. "
— New Orleans, Louisiana, Times-Picayune
" 'Contemporary Verse' is here, and, we hope, to stay. It came without a flourish — dimply print ed some very good contributions.
That ought to be sufficient for those American Intellectuals who are bemoaning the deca dence of poetry. "
—The Rochester Herald, Rochester, New York
— The Literary Digest, New York Rates, $1. 50 a year
Address: 622 South Washington Square, Philadelphia
quality indeed. "
— Current Opinion, New
York
"Each contribution is a gem. " —Sioux City, Iowa, Daily Tribune
"Has in it finer stuff than we've seen in many another more pre tentious journal. "
—T. A. Daly,
Philadelphia Evening Ledger
"All the contents are interesting. " —Chicago Record-Herald
"Its poetry is admirably selected
to find any other American magazine verse more notable for originality and imagination. . . . "
It would be difficult
Application for entry at Second Clan matter at the Post Office i
By JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
Love and Liberation $1. 50 net
"Sleep on, I lie at heaven's high oriels Over the stars that mumur as they go Lighting your lattice window (ar b low;
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof I know.
I have forgotten you long, long ago.
Like the sweet, silver singing of thin bells Vanished, or music fading faint and low.
