MODERN AMERICAN POETRY

(Revised and Enlarged Edition)

BY

LOUIS UNTERMEYER

Author of “Challenge,” “Including Horace,” “The New Era in American Poetry,” etc.

NEW YORK

HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY

For permission to reprint most of the material in thisvolume, the editor wishes to thank not only the poetswhose coöperation has been of such assistance, but alsothe publishers, all of whom are holders of the copyright.The indebtedness is alphabetically acknowledged to:

Richard G. Badger—for the poems from Sun and SaddleLeather and Grass-Grown Trails by Badger Clark.

Bobbs-Merrill Company—for two poems from The CompleteWorks of James Whitcomb Riley.

Brentano’s—for two poems from Chanteys and Ballads byHarry Kemp.

Nicholas L. Brown—for the poem from Blood of Things byAlfred Kreymborg.

The Century Company—for the selections from Merchantsfrom Cathay by William Rose Benét and War and Laughterby James Oppenheim.

The Century Magazine—for “Lake Song” by Jean StarrUntermeyer.

Dodd, Mead & Company—for the two poems from Lyrics ofLowly Life and one poem from Lyrics of Love and Laughterby Paul Laurence Dunbar.

George H. Doran Company—for the selections from Moons ofGrandeur by William Rose Benét, Banners by BabetteDeutsch, Trees and Other Poems by Joyce Kilmer, and Hideand Seek by Christopher Morley.

Doubleday, Page & Company—for the selections from In OtherWords and Tobogganning on Parnassus by Franklin P.Adams, The Man with the Hoe and Lincoln and Other Poemsby Edwin Markham.

ivE. P. Dutton & Company—for the selections from The Vale ofTempe by Madison Cawein and Lanterns in Gethsemane byWillard Wattles.

Four Seas Company—for the quotations from The Charnel Rose,The Jig of Forslin and The House of Dust by Conrad Aiken.

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