Research Catalog

Title

The poetic year for 1916 : a critical anthology / by William Stanley Braithwaite.

Author

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962

Publication

• Boston : Small, Maynard & Company [1917]
• ©1917.

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Details

Additional Authors

Small, Maynard & Company, publisher.

Description

xviii, 403, [1] pages; 22 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Uniform Title

Boston evening transcript.

Subjects

• English poetry > History and criticism
• American poetry > History and criticism
• Insertions (Provenance)
• Presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
• Authors' autographs (Provenance)
• Black author
• Poetry, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Insertions (Provenance)
• Presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
• Authors' autographs (Provenance)

Note

• With a half-title.
• "Copyright, 1917, by Small, Maynard & Company (Incorporated)"--verso of title page.
• "The substance of the chapters in this book appeared in the columns of the Boston evening transcript, in a series of articles called 'The Lutanists of midsummer,' and in the poetry reviews, which I contributed during 1916, to that paper, and are here reprinted by courteous permission. ..."--Acknowledgments, page vii.
• Last page blank.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on title page "William Stanley Braithwaite." ; Accompanied by a newspaper clipping, "Literary men at luncheon" [about the Negro Society for Historical Research] mounted on a sheet and pasted on a preliminary endleaf, and inscribed "For your Scrap Book-- Bruce Grit. Dec. 15/16." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Introduction: We discuss the poetry of― -- ch. 1. Magic casements / Bliss Carman, Walter de la Mare, Lizette Woodworth Reese -- ch. 2. The research artifice / Mitchell S. Buck, Elsa Barker, Cuthbert Wright, Donald Evans -- ch. 3. The sacerdotal wonder of life / Norreys Jephson O'Conor, Mary Aldis, John Masefield -- ch. 4. The chant of Armageddon / J.C. Squire, A. St. John Adcock, Thomas MacDonagh, P.H. Pearse, Joseph Mary Plunkett, Sir Roger Casement -- ch. 5. Peacock pie: High tide ; Songs of joy and vision from the present-day poets of America and Great Britain ; Others ; An anthology of the new verse ; A book of Princeton verse ; Catholic anthology ; Some Imagist poets ; 1916 ; The Chicago anthology -- ch. 6. Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos & Co. / Edwin Arlington Robinson, Hermann Hagedorn -- ch. 7. Selling Aladdin's lamp / Edgar Lee Masters, Conrad Aiken -- ch. 8. The idol-breakers (other peoples') / Adelaide Crapsey, John Gould Fletcher, Alfred Kreymborg, Walter Conrad Arensberg -- ch. 9. The nostalgia of Bournes / Charles Wharton Stork, Frederick Mortimer Clapp, Caroline Stern -- ch. 10. "The glory that was Greece" / Witter Bynner, Louis V. Ledoux -- ch. 11. The jest of democracy / Louis Untermeyer, H. Stanley Haskins, Madeline Bridges, George Reginald Margeston -- ch. 12. Footnotes to reality / Amelia Joseph Burr, Winifred Maynard -- ch. 13. Romantics: half morocco 8vo / Ruth Comfort Mitchell, Amy Lowell -- ch. 14. The dream on its throne / James Oppenheim, James Stephens, Josephine Preston Peabody -- ch. 15. "A few brave drops were ours" / Alan Seeger, Robert W. Service -- ch. 16. Lustral waters / Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Olive Tilford Dargan -- ch. 17. Patrins / William H. Davies, John G. Neihardt, Donald Evans -- ch. 18. In gloria mundi / James H. Wallis, Conrad Aiken -- ch. 19. Apologia: Anthology of magazine verse for 1916.

Call Number

Sc 821.08-B (Braithwaite, W. Poetic year for 1916)

LCCN

17026654

OCLC

• 1079997
• NYPGR1079997-B

Author

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962, editor.

Title

The poetic year for 1916 : a critical anthology / by William Stanley Braithwaite.

Publisher

Boston : Small, Maynard & Company [1917]

Copyright Date

©1917.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Authors' autographs (Provenance) rbprov NN

Provenance

Copy in Sc 821.08-B (accession no. B526611) inscribed: in ink on title page "William Stanley Braithwaite." ; Accompanied by a newspaper clipping, "Literary men at luncheon" [about the Negro Society for Historical Research] mounted on a sheet and pasted on a preliminary endleaf, and inscribed "For your Scrap Book-- Bruce Grit. Dec. 15/16." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Small, Maynard & Company, publisher.

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962, inscriber.

Bruce, John Edward, 1856-1924, inscriber.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Added Title

Boston evening transcript.

Research Call Number

Sc 821.08-B (Braithwaite, W. Poetic year for 1916)

NAEC (Braithwaite, W. S. B. Poetic year for 1916)