The New PoetrySWORD BLADESandPOPPY SEEDByAMY LOWELLAuthor of “A DOME OF MANY-COLOURED GLASS,” Etc.In “The Boston Herald” Josephine Preston Peabody writes of this unusual book:“First, last and all inclusive in Miss Amy Lowell’s poetic equipment is vitality enough to float the work of half a score of minor poets.... Against the multitudinous array of daily verse our times produce ... this volume utters itself with a range and brilliancy wholly remarkable.... A wealth of subtleties and sympathies, gorgeously wrought, full of macabre effects (as many of the poems are) and brilliantly worked out ... personally I cannot see that Miss Lowell’s use of unrhymed vers libre has been surpassed in English. This breadth and ardor run through the whole fabric of the subject matter.... Here is the fairly Dionysiac revelry of a tireless workman. With an honesty as whole as anything in literature she hails any and all experience as stuff for poetry. The things of splendor she has made she will hardly outdo in their kind.”Price $1.25 net. At all bookstores.PUBLISHEDBY64-66 5th AvenueNEW YORKTHE MACMILLAN COMPANYBy Paul ClaudelTHE EAST I KNOWTranslated into English byTeresea FrancesandWilliam Rose Benét.YaleUniversityPress109 Elm StreetNEW HAVEN,CONN.225 Fifth Ave.NEW YORKCITYPaul Claudel was for many years in the French Government Service in Cochin, China. “The East I Know” is a translation into English of his “La Connaissance de l’Est.” It is a series of word pictures of life in the Far East written by a poet whose individuality and originality are bound to make a profound impression on American as they have already done on Continental readers. The translators have captured with complete success the author’s exquisitely delicate feeling for words which give the color and soul of the East with poetic modulation yet unmistakable truthfulness.This is the first of M. Claudel’s work to appear in English and is expressly authorized by him.8vo. Cloth binding. 199 pages. Price $1.50 net postpaid.By William Rose BenétTHE FALCONER OF GODAND OTHER POEMSMr. Benét’s sensitive appreciation of human interest, and his ability to frame his thoughts each in the style best suited to convey it, have already made him known to a large public. Readers of the Century, Scribner’s, Harper’s, The Outlook, The Independent, and other magazines are familiar with the appeal of his poetry.The present volume is a collection of virile and impressive poems enhanced by the fantastic color and charm which Mr. Benét has already made his own. It contains two poems which should be of especial interest in the present European crisis, reflecting as they do the spirit of the Franco-German War of 1870.12mo. Board binding. 122 pages. Price $1.00 net postpaid. Limp leather binding. Price $1.50 postpaid.
The New Poetry
SWORD BLADESandPOPPY SEED
ByAMY LOWELL
Author of “A DOME OF MANY-COLOURED GLASS,” Etc.
In “The Boston Herald” Josephine Preston Peabody writes of this unusual book:
“First, last and all inclusive in Miss Amy Lowell’s poetic equipment is vitality enough to float the work of half a score of minor poets.... Against the multitudinous array of daily verse our times produce ... this volume utters itself with a range and brilliancy wholly remarkable.... A wealth of subtleties and sympathies, gorgeously wrought, full of macabre effects (as many of the poems are) and brilliantly worked out ... personally I cannot see that Miss Lowell’s use of unrhymed vers libre has been surpassed in English. This breadth and ardor run through the whole fabric of the subject matter.... Here is the fairly Dionysiac revelry of a tireless workman. With an honesty as whole as anything in literature she hails any and all experience as stuff for poetry. The things of splendor she has made she will hardly outdo in their kind.”
Price $1.25 net. At all bookstores.
PUBLISHEDBY
64-66 5th AvenueNEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
By Paul Claudel
THE EAST I KNOW
Translated into English byTeresea FrancesandWilliam Rose Benét.
YaleUniversityPress109 Elm StreetNEW HAVEN,CONN.225 Fifth Ave.NEW YORKCITY
YaleUniversityPress109 Elm StreetNEW HAVEN,CONN.225 Fifth Ave.NEW YORKCITY
YaleUniversityPress
109 Elm StreetNEW HAVEN,CONN.
225 Fifth Ave.NEW YORKCITY
Paul Claudel was for many years in the French Government Service in Cochin, China. “The East I Know” is a translation into English of his “La Connaissance de l’Est.” It is a series of word pictures of life in the Far East written by a poet whose individuality and originality are bound to make a profound impression on American as they have already done on Continental readers. The translators have captured with complete success the author’s exquisitely delicate feeling for words which give the color and soul of the East with poetic modulation yet unmistakable truthfulness.
This is the first of M. Claudel’s work to appear in English and is expressly authorized by him.
8vo. Cloth binding. 199 pages. Price $1.50 net postpaid.
By William Rose Benét
THE FALCONER OF GODAND OTHER POEMS
Mr. Benét’s sensitive appreciation of human interest, and his ability to frame his thoughts each in the style best suited to convey it, have already made him known to a large public. Readers of the Century, Scribner’s, Harper’s, The Outlook, The Independent, and other magazines are familiar with the appeal of his poetry.
The present volume is a collection of virile and impressive poems enhanced by the fantastic color and charm which Mr. Benét has already made his own. It contains two poems which should be of especial interest in the present European crisis, reflecting as they do the spirit of the Franco-German War of 1870.
12mo. Board binding. 122 pages. Price $1.00 net postpaid. Limp leather binding. Price $1.50 postpaid.