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...been arranged. The lecture, which is not open to the public, but is part of a meeting of the Massachusetts Library Club, has for its subject "Three Living American Poets," The poets to be treated by Professor Phelps, who is professor of English Literature at Yale University, are Vachel Lindsay, Robert Frost, and Edwin Arlington Robinson. A group of their letters and first editions together with some books of Professor Phelps's constitute the exhibit in the Treasure Room...
There is also in the collection a few impromptu poems and drawings which Vachel Lindsay gave to Miss Lowell. One poem, especially, entitled "Sunrise on Easter Day," is illustrated with pen and ink sketches of a rabbit. In the drawings the letters AMY LOWELL are found as in a puzzle...
Unlike the Oxford book, however, Mr. Gay has not restricted himself to the poets of England alone. One finds Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Eleanor Wylie, Vachel Lindsay, and others, listed with an admirable breadth of taste. On the other hand, the old favorites do not suffer from this inclusive grouping. In some six hundred pages the anthologist has managed to gather together the finest of the old and still he has found space for examples of the new. When it is realized that he has also given many excerpts from longer works--such as from Shakespeare's plays and from...
...year to publish it. It gives bits of information and advances the ideas of Mr. Ford. For example, the current issue contains such articles as: "A Preacher tells the Inside Story of Sinclair Lewis and his Preacher Book," "The Gibson Girl and Other Symbols of Yesterday" by Vachel Lindsay, "The True Story of Mary's Little Lamb," "Japan Looks to America to Prevent Wars," "Every Person Has at Least One Book in Him," and the usual "Mr. Ford's Page...
Only from men whose meaning is not yet altogether clear is there great promise - Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay - and from the new attitudes of science: pure research and speculation; the translations, such as A. N. Whitehead's Science and the Modern World, of science into full human existence...