Earth TriumphantandOther Tales In VerseBY CONRAD AIKENOpinions of the Leading Reviewers“There are many volumes of poetry this season, Conrad Aiken’s ‘Earth Triumphant’ being given first place not only because of its excellence, but because it voices the spirit of the new world in sonorous tones.”—Los Angeles Graphic.“The narrative poems in this book in hand are written by one whose thought has sounded further depths than the author of ‘The Everlasting Mercy’ has yet found. In particular is this true of ‘Youth,’ the second number in the book, a poem of greater daring, strength, and scope than has come from any singer of recent note.”—New York World.“A new champion has entered the lists, for it is impossible to read Mr. Conrad Aiken’s volume, ‘Earth Triumphant,’ without realizing that he sounds a note quite different to any that has been heard before.... A remarkable sense of balance and of value is combined with no little beauty of expression and the result cannot fail to be impressive. The philosophy is that of the transcendency of youth, of the cleansing that is to be found in the forces of nature. To make use of a phrase lately rediscovered by one of our novelists, Mr. Aiken makes us ‘touch earth.’”—L. B. Lippman, inThe Book News Monthly.“Aiken sings the praises of Earth and Youth with genuine sweetness and exuberance ... rapid moving narratives with many soaring lyrics by the way.”—Chicago Evening Post.“His stories are graphic, his shorter lyrics steeped in warm earth music.... Mr. Aiken’s book is one of the most pleasing of the year.”—American Review of Reviews.“The author’s manifestly accurate power of observation finds fullest scope in this (Earth Triumphant) the greatest of the poems.... There are descriptions of the effect of nature upon the man noticing its beauties for the first time which remind us of the younger Wordsworth; but there is in addition the fuller flood of tide of modern life which is always heard in these poems. The appeal of the earth and her relation to man are spoken of again and again in various poems, all of which give forth an atmosphere of keen, vibrant life, of largeness, and of the fuller music of reality in life.”—Boston Daily Advertiser.“With genuine beauty they relate tales which reveal the heart of modern life in various phases of youth, and contain a reading of earth which differs in essentials from that of Meredith. The volume deserves a wider audience than the usual public which cares for poetry.”—Wm. S. Braithwaite,Anthology of Magazine Verse, 1914.CLOTH, 12mo., $1.25 NET, POSTAGE EXTRAPublished at64-66 Fifth Ave.New YorkOn salewherever booksare soldThe Macmillan Company
Earth TriumphantandOther Tales In Verse
BY CONRAD AIKEN
Opinions of the Leading Reviewers
“There are many volumes of poetry this season, Conrad Aiken’s ‘Earth Triumphant’ being given first place not only because of its excellence, but because it voices the spirit of the new world in sonorous tones.”—Los Angeles Graphic.
“The narrative poems in this book in hand are written by one whose thought has sounded further depths than the author of ‘The Everlasting Mercy’ has yet found. In particular is this true of ‘Youth,’ the second number in the book, a poem of greater daring, strength, and scope than has come from any singer of recent note.”—New York World.
“A new champion has entered the lists, for it is impossible to read Mr. Conrad Aiken’s volume, ‘Earth Triumphant,’ without realizing that he sounds a note quite different to any that has been heard before.... A remarkable sense of balance and of value is combined with no little beauty of expression and the result cannot fail to be impressive. The philosophy is that of the transcendency of youth, of the cleansing that is to be found in the forces of nature. To make use of a phrase lately rediscovered by one of our novelists, Mr. Aiken makes us ‘touch earth.’”—L. B. Lippman, inThe Book News Monthly.
“Aiken sings the praises of Earth and Youth with genuine sweetness and exuberance ... rapid moving narratives with many soaring lyrics by the way.”—Chicago Evening Post.
“His stories are graphic, his shorter lyrics steeped in warm earth music.... Mr. Aiken’s book is one of the most pleasing of the year.”—American Review of Reviews.
“The author’s manifestly accurate power of observation finds fullest scope in this (Earth Triumphant) the greatest of the poems.... There are descriptions of the effect of nature upon the man noticing its beauties for the first time which remind us of the younger Wordsworth; but there is in addition the fuller flood of tide of modern life which is always heard in these poems. The appeal of the earth and her relation to man are spoken of again and again in various poems, all of which give forth an atmosphere of keen, vibrant life, of largeness, and of the fuller music of reality in life.”—Boston Daily Advertiser.
“With genuine beauty they relate tales which reveal the heart of modern life in various phases of youth, and contain a reading of earth which differs in essentials from that of Meredith. The volume deserves a wider audience than the usual public which cares for poetry.”—Wm. S. Braithwaite,Anthology of Magazine Verse, 1914.
CLOTH, 12mo., $1.25 NET, POSTAGE EXTRA
Published at64-66 Fifth Ave.New York
On salewherever booksare sold
The Macmillan Company