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Poetry introduced an extraordinary group of poets to the U. S., from Yeats and T. S. Eliot to Sandburg and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Almost every contemporary English and American poet of distinction appeared in its pages or was involved in its battles. But although readers of A Poet's Life can gain some insight into modern poetry, may pick up minor items of literary information (such as Louis Untermeyer's smug dismissal of Eliot's first poems), they are likely to be left wondering how so much literary excitement could have been made so dull...
...marked deceased-the exhibition was notable for its revelation of the number of first-class writers Harriet Monroe had discovered. To U. S. readers Poetry introduced Yeats, Eliot, Ezra Pound, Rupert Brooke when they had only small reputations abroad, brought out poets of the stature of Edna St. Vincent Millay and Vachel Lindsay, who had never published anywhere until Poetry gave them an outlet...
Well might Edna St. Vincent Millay cry, "Oh, God, why write," if she chanced to scan TIME'S report under Science in its Aug. 30 issue. To have her scintillating, fire-refined, twice-forged, rapier-like lines from Conversation at Midnight attributed to a bearded, oldster paleobotanist who prates of speleology, must have been, to say the least, distressing to America's premier candle-at-both-ends-burner...
Typical of Poet Millay's ingenuity is the history-in-miniature effect gained by having Father Anselmo go home early, leaving the conversation to circle through such topics as Romantic Love, the Supreme Court, the Past, toward ever more pointed conflict between Broker Merton and Communist Carl. Finally the latter says...
While Miss Millay's Liberal character despairs of reviving liberalism as a political force, she gives the lines which seem to ring most with her own conviction to the artist, John...