{"product_id":"2940012757289","title":"KENTUCKY POEMS","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PROLOGUE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  FOREST AND FIELD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  SUMMER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  TO SORROW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  NIGHT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  A FALLEN BEECH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  A TWILIGHT MOTH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE GRASSHOPPER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  BEFORE THE RAIN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  AFTER RAIN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE HAUNTED HOUSE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  OCTOBER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  INDIAN SUMMER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ALONG THE OHIO\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  A COIGN OF THE FOREST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CREOLE SERENADE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  WILL O' THE WISPS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE TOLLMAN'S DAUGHTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE BOY COLUMBUS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  SONG OF THE ELF\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE OLD INN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE MILL-WATER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE DREAM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  SPRING TWILIGHT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  A SLEET-STORM IN MAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  UNREQUITED\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE HEART O' SPRING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'A BROKEN RAINBOW ON THE SKIES OF MAY'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ORGIE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  REVERIE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  LETHE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  DIONYSIA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE NAIAD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE LIMNAD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  INTIMATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  BEFORE THE TEMPLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ANTHEM OF DAWN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  AT THE LANE'S END\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE FARMSTEAD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  A FLOWER OF THE FIELDS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE FEUD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  LYNCHERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  DEAD MAN'S RUN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  AUGUST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE BUSH-SPARROW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  QUIET\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  MUSIC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE PURPLE VALLEYS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  A DREAM SHAPE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE OLD BARN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE WOOD WITCH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  AT SUNSET\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  MAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  RAIN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  TO FALL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  SUNSET IN AUTUMN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE HILLS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CONTENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  HEART OF MY HEART\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  OCTOBER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  MYTH AND ROMANCE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  GENIUS LOCI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  DISCOVERY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE OLD SPRING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE FOREST SPRING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  TRANSMUTATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  DEAD CITIES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  FROST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  A NIGHT IN JUNE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE DREAMER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  WINTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  MID-WINTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  SPRING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  TRANSFORMATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  RESPONSE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE SWASHBUCKLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  SIMULACRA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CAVERNS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE BLUE BIRD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  QUATRAINS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ADVENTURERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  EPILOGUE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince the disappearance of the latest survivors of that graceful and\u003cbr\u003esomewhat academic school of poets who ruled American literature so long\u003cbr\u003efrom the shores of Massachusetts, serious poetry in the United States\u003cbr\u003eseems to have been passing through a crisis of languor. Perhaps there is\u003cbr\u003eno country on the civilised globe where, in theory, verse is treated\u003cbr\u003ewith more respect and, in practice, with a greater lack of grave\u003cbr\u003econsideration than America. No conjecture as to the reason of this must\u003cbr\u003ebe attempted here, further than to suggest that the extreme value set\u003cbr\u003eupon sharpness, ingenuity and rapid mobility is obviously calculated to\u003cbr\u003edepreciate and to condemn the quiet practice of the most meditative of\u003cbr\u003ethe arts. Hence we find that it is what is called 'humorous' verse which\u003cbr\u003eis mainly in fashion on the western side of the Atlantic. Those rhymes\u003cbr\u003eare most warmly welcomed which play the most preposterous tricks with\u003cbr\u003elanguage, which dazzle by the most mountebank swiftness of turn, and\u003cbr\u003ewhich depend most for their effect upon paradox and the negation of\u003cbr\u003esober thought. It is probable that the diseased craving for what is\u003cbr\u003e'smart,' 'snappy' and wide-awake, and the impulse to see everything\u003cbr\u003eforeshortened and topsy-turvy, must wear themselves out before cooler\u003cbr\u003eand more graceful tastes again prevail in imaginative literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhatever be the cause, it is certain that this is not a moment when\u003cbr\u003eserious poetry, of any species, is flourishing in the United States. The\u003cbr\u003eabsence of anything like a common impulse among young writers, of any\u003cbr\u003edefinite and intelligible, if excessive, _parti pris_, is immediately\u003cbr\u003eobservable if we contrast the American, for instance, with the French\u003cbr\u003epoets of the last fifteen years. Where there is no school and no clear\u003cbr\u003etrend of executive ambition, the solitary artist, whose talent forces\u003cbr\u003eitself up into the light and air, suffers unusual difficulties, and runs\u003cbr\u003ea constant danger of being choked in the aimless mediocrity that\u003cbr\u003esurrounds him. We occasionally meet with a poet in the history of\u003cbr\u003eliterature, of whom we are inclined to say, Charming as he is, he would\u003cbr\u003ehave developed his talent more evenly and conspicuously,--with greater\u003cbr\u003edecorum, perhaps,--if he had been accompanied from the first by other\u003cbr\u003eyoung men like-minded, who would have formed for him an atmosphere and\u003cbr\u003ecleared for him a space. This is the one regret I feel in contemplating,\u003cbr\u003eas I have done for years past, the ardent and beautiful talent of Mr.\u003cbr\u003eCawein. I deplore the fact that he seems to stand alone in his\u003cbr\u003egeneration; I think his poetry would have been even better than it is,\u003cbr\u003eand its qualities would certainly have been more clearly perceived, and\u003cbr\u003emore intelligently appreciated, if he were less isolated.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081673818352,"sku":"2940012757289","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012757289_p0.jpg?v=1763572308","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012757289","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}