From
Pericles
to Philip.
Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets
Matthew Arnold; how to know
him. Bobbs, 1917.
An exceptionally able and comprehensive introduction to a study of Arnold's work and influence. —Boston Transcript.
349
Showerman, Grant. Horace and his influence. (Our debt
to Greece and Rome) Marshall Jones, 1922.
For intelligence and charm one may safely back [this essay] as against any other in the whole voluminous literature on Horace. —It is written in good, clear English, restrained, yet rich and flexible. New Republic.
52 POETRY AND POETS
350
Smart, John Semple. Shakespeare ; truth and tradition. Ar
nold, 1928.
It presents the dramatist in the setting of the times, a natural and con vincing portrait of a man in whom his acquaintances and contemporaries saw nothing to excite special inquiry; nothing astonishing in their good friend save his genius; nothing abnormal in his career save its most ex cellent achievements. — William Macneile Dixon.
351
Smyth, Herbert Weir. Aeschylean tragedy. Univ. of Cal ifornia, 1924.
He handles his learning with an easy touch. He is vivacious and sparkling. He scatters allusion rather freely yet with telling effect. — Nation.
352
Sturgeon, Mary C. Studies of contemporary poets. Rev. ed. Dodd, 1919.
353
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Essays and studies. Chatto, 1911.
354
Taggard, Genevieve. The life and mind of Emily Dickinson.
Knopf, 1930.
Here for once Emily Dickinson has escaped from her kin and met her kind. She has been patiently, understandingly, beautifully interpreted by a mind fitted to cope with her own. —N. Y. Tribune: Books.
355
Thompson, Francis. Shelley; with introd. by the Right Hon. George Wyndham. Scribner, 1909.
I suppose [this] to be the finest piece of criticism written upon him.
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.
356
Tyrrell, Robert Yelverton. Essays on Greek literature.
Macmillan, 1909.
The gist of the book is thoroughly enjoyable reading and reliable scholarship. —North American.
357
Untermeyer, Louis. The new era in American poetry. Holt,
1919.
Reprinted for the most part from periodicals from 1910-1919. They are of unequal worth and interest but their value is the greater because of many quotations from the poets reviewed.
358
STUDIES OF THE CHOSEN POETS S3
Van Doren, Mark. The poetry of John Dryden. Harcourt, 1920.
There is some novelty, I hope, in a treatment, on an extended and more or less enthusiastic scale, of Dryden's non-dramatic verse as a body, with attention to the celebrator, the satirist, the journalist, the
singer and the story-teller all together. —Preface,
359
Van Dyke, Henry. Studies in Tennyson. Scribner, 1920.
360
Warren, Sir Thomas Herbert. Essays of poets and poetry
ancient and modern. Murray, 1909.
No lover of literature could read the volume without having his ad mirations quickened and harmonized, without a renewal of the sense of the dignity and sweetness of the old traditions of art and song. —Satur day Review.
361
Watts-Dunton, Theodore. Old familiar faces. Dutton,
1916.
362
Whiting, Lilian. The Brownings ; their life and art. Little, 1911.
363
Williams, Charles. Poetry at present. Oxford, 1930.
An excellent introduction to the work of sixteen contemporary poets who, in the author's opinion, have in however small an extent enlarged the boundaries of English verse. —Booklist.
364
Williams, Stanley Thomas. Studies in Victorian literature. Dutton, 1923.
365
Winchester, Caleb Thomas. William Wordsworth ; how to
know him. Bobbs, 1916.
Its criticism is usually sound and at times markedly penetrating. — Yale Review.
366
Woodberry, George Edward. Life of Edgar Allan Poe ; per
sonal and literary. 2v. Houghton, 1909.
Besides the interest in the personality and adventures of that "bright but unsteady light" of poetry, this authoritative life has "two special interests in that it was a life led outside of New England, and that it embodies much contemporaneous literary history not involved in any other life of our greater writers. " —Preface.
54 POETRY AND POETS 367
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Macmillan, 1907.
Charmingly written—the style so distinctive, the ideas so often lu minous and so generally fascinating. —Literary Digest.
368
Wylie, Eleanor. The orphan angel. Knopf, 1926.
Shelley is the hero of her story, Shelley rescued, near dead from drowning off Leghorn, by a Yankee clipper brig and, not unwillingly, carried off to America. —Saturday Review.
369
Yeats, William Butler. Essays. Macmillan, 1924.
It includes the essays originally collected under the titles Ideas of good and evil, The cutting of an agate, and Per arnica silentia lunae.
370
Young, F. E. Brett. Robert Bridges ; a critical study. Seeker, 1914.
VI.
TEXTS AND STUDIES OF THE POETS ARRANGED BY PERIODS OR
THE POETS' DATES
1
CONCERNING POETRY'S BEGINNING
War Cries, Labor Chanties and Lullabies
Auslander, J. The winged horse, by J. Auslander and F. E. Hill, p. 1-16.
[211]*
Gummere, F. B. The beginnings of poetry. [273]
The popular ballad.
Pound, Louise. Poetic origins and the ballad.
2 HOMER
[274]
"The great fact of ancient Greece is the poetry of Homer. " Texts:
Iliad; tr. by Alexander Pope.
Iliad; tr. into English blank verse by W. C. Bryant.
Iliad; done into English prose by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf and Ernest
Myers. [56]
Odyssey ; tr. by Alexander Pope.
Odyssey; tr. into English blank verse by W. C. Bryant.
Odyssey ; done into English prose by S. H. Butcher and A. Lang. Odyssey; tr. into English rhythmic prose by G. H. Palmer.
Texts: Simple versions:
Church, A. J. Iliad for boys and girls. [63]
Odyssey for boys and girls.
Colum, P. Adventures of Ulysses, and The tale of Troy.
Lang, A. Tales of Troy and Greece. Marvin, F. S. Adventures of Odysseus.
[60]
[62]
[54]
[57]
[64]
Comments:
Auslander, J. The winged horse, by J. Auslander and F. E. Hill, p. 19-29.
[211]
Jebb, Sir R. C. Homer; an introd. to the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Livingstone, R. W. Pageant of Greece, p. 15-78.
Mackail, J. W. Lectures on Greek poetry, p. 3-79. [305]
55
[285]
[65] [61]
[331]
[159]
[55]
[58]
[59]
56 POETRY AND POETS 3
GREEK POETRY
Their songs the patterns for ours today.
General Books
Texts:
Appleton, W. H. Greek poets in English verse. Dole, N. H. The Greek poets ; an anthology. Leaf, W. Little poems from the Greek. 2v.
Comments:
[140] [148]
[157]
Auslander, J. The winged horse, by J. Auslander and F. E. Hill, p. 30-
54.
Chapman, J. J. Greek genius. [229]
Dickinson, G. L. Greek view of life, p. 199-266.
Glover, T. R.
From Pericles to Philip.
Hamilton, E. The Greek way, p. 62-101 ; 138-150; 200-239. Livingstone, R. W. The legacy of Greece, p. 249-287.
[211]
[246] [267]
The pageant of Greece.
Mackail, J. W. Lectures on Greek poetry. Moulton, R. G. Ancient classical drama. Tyrrell, R. Y. Essays on Greek literature.
The Anthology
Texts:
[278] [158]
Lawton, W. C. The soul of the anthology. Leaf, W. Little poems from the Greek.
Hesiod
Texts:
[305] [318]
[356]
[75] [157]
156.
Tyrrell, R. Y. Essays on Greek literature, p. 1-40.
[284]
[159]
Hesiod and Theognis by James Davies.
The poems and fragments done into English prose by A. W. Mair.
[53]
Pindar
Texts:
Extant odes ; tr. by Ernest Myers. [97] Golden porch by W. M. L. Hutchinson. [70]
Comments:
Jebb, Sir R. C. Growth and influence of classical Greek poetry, p. 126-
[241]
[356]
TEXTS AND STUDIES ARRANGED BY PERIODS 57 Sappho
Text:
Fragments of the lyrical poems ; ed. by Edgar Lobel.
Comment:
Mackail, J. W. Lectures on Greek poetry, p. 83-112.
Theocritus
[115] [305]
Texts:
Theocritus, Bion and Moschus ; rendered into English prose by A. Lang.
[127]
Theocritus, Bion and Moschus; tr. into English verse by Arthur S.
Way.
Comment:
Mackail, J. W. Lectures on Greek poetry, p. 208-238.
4
GREEK DRAMA
[128]
[305]
How Grief and Beauty blended and became Greek tragedy. General Books
Texts:
Appleton, W. H. Greek poets in English verse by various hands.
Ten Greek plays; tr. by Gilbert Murray and others.
[3]
Comments:
Campbell, L. Tragic drama in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Shakespeare.
[226]
Goodell, T. D. Athenian tragedy. Moulton, R. G. Ancient classical drama.
Aeschylus
Texts:
Lyrical dramas; tr. into English verse by J. S. Blackie. [1]
Comments:
Campbell, L. Tragic drama in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Shakespeare.
[226]
Copleton, R. S. Aeschylus.
Goodell, T. D. Athenian tragedy, p. 183-201. Hamilton, E. The Greek way, p. 151-171. Smyth, H. W. Aeschylean tragedy.
[269]
[318]
[238]
[351]
[269] [278]
[125]
58 POETRY AND POETS
Aristophanes
Texts:
The Acharnians, and two other plays ; tr. by J. H. Frere. [4]
Comments:
Collins, W. L. Aristophanes.
[236] Hamilton, E. The Greek way, p. 102-137.
[278]
Lord, L. E. Aristophanes.
Euripides
[298]
Texts:
Euripides ; tr. into English rhyming verse by Gilbert Murray.
Medea, Trojan women, Electra; tr. by Gilbert Murray.
Comments:
Chapman, J. J. Greek genius, p. 1-131. [229] Glover, T. R. From Pericles to Philip, p. 136-162.
Goodell, T. D. Athenian tragedy, p. 233-283. Hamilton, E. The Greek way, p. 186-199.
Murray, G. Euripides and his age.
Sophocles
Text:
Tragedies ; tr. into English prose by Sir R. C. Jebb.
[44] [45]
Comments:
Campbell, Lewis. Tragic drama in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Shake
speare.
Goodell, T. D. Athenian tragedy, p. 202-232.
Hamilton, E. The Greek way, p. 172-185.
Mackail, J. W. Lectures on Greek poetry, p. 141-173. Tyrrell, R. Y. Essays on Greek literature, p. 41-84. Warren, Sir T. H. Essays of poets and poetry, p. 1-43.
5
LATIN POETRY
[211]
[226]
"Roman Power that was not of the Sword. " General Books
Texts:
Dole, N. H. The Latin poets.
Comments:
[149]
Auslander, J. The winged horse, by J. Auslander and F. E Hill, p. 55-
75.
[278] [320]
[267] [269]
[269] [278]
[120]
[305] [356]
[360]
TEXTS AND STUDIES ARRANGED BY PERIODS 59
Duff, J. W. Literary history of Rome. [252]
Mackail, J. W. Latin literature. [304]
Sellar, W. Y. Roman poets of the Augustan age. 2v. [345, 346]
Horace
Texts:
Complete works; tr. by various hands.
Comments:
Auslander, J. The winged horse, by J. Auslander and F. E. Hill, p. 55-
64.
Boissier, G. Country of Horace and Virgil.
Duff, J. W. Literary history of Rome, p. 496-545.
Haight, E. H. Horace and his art of enjoyment. Quiller-Couch, Sir A. Studies in literature, v. 1, p. 51-75. Rand, E. K. Walk to Horace's farm.
Sellar, W. Y. Horace and the elegiac poets.
Showerman, Grant. Horace and his influence.
[211]
Virgil
Texts:
Works: tr. into English prose by John Conington. Aeneid; done into English -verse by William Morris.
Comments:
[67]
[338]
[345]
[217]
[347]
[252] [277]
[334]
Auslander, J. The winged horse, by J.
him. Bobbs, 1917.
An exceptionally able and comprehensive introduction to a study of Arnold's work and influence. —Boston Transcript.
349
Showerman, Grant. Horace and his influence. (Our debt
to Greece and Rome) Marshall Jones, 1922.
For intelligence and charm one may safely back [this essay] as against any other in the whole voluminous literature on Horace. —It is written in good, clear English, restrained, yet rich and flexible. New Republic.
52 POETRY AND POETS
350
Smart, John Semple. Shakespeare ; truth and tradition. Ar
nold, 1928.
It presents the dramatist in the setting of the times, a natural and con vincing portrait of a man in whom his acquaintances and contemporaries saw nothing to excite special inquiry; nothing astonishing in their good friend save his genius; nothing abnormal in his career save its most ex cellent achievements. — William Macneile Dixon.
351
Smyth, Herbert Weir. Aeschylean tragedy. Univ. of Cal ifornia, 1924.
He handles his learning with an easy touch. He is vivacious and sparkling. He scatters allusion rather freely yet with telling effect. — Nation.
352
Sturgeon, Mary C. Studies of contemporary poets. Rev. ed. Dodd, 1919.
353
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Essays and studies. Chatto, 1911.
354
Taggard, Genevieve. The life and mind of Emily Dickinson.
Knopf, 1930.
Here for once Emily Dickinson has escaped from her kin and met her kind. She has been patiently, understandingly, beautifully interpreted by a mind fitted to cope with her own. —N. Y. Tribune: Books.
355
Thompson, Francis. Shelley; with introd. by the Right Hon. George Wyndham. Scribner, 1909.
I suppose [this] to be the finest piece of criticism written upon him.
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.
356
Tyrrell, Robert Yelverton. Essays on Greek literature.
Macmillan, 1909.
The gist of the book is thoroughly enjoyable reading and reliable scholarship. —North American.
357
Untermeyer, Louis. The new era in American poetry. Holt,
1919.
Reprinted for the most part from periodicals from 1910-1919. They are of unequal worth and interest but their value is the greater because of many quotations from the poets reviewed.
358
STUDIES OF THE CHOSEN POETS S3
Van Doren, Mark. The poetry of John Dryden. Harcourt, 1920.
There is some novelty, I hope, in a treatment, on an extended and more or less enthusiastic scale, of Dryden's non-dramatic verse as a body, with attention to the celebrator, the satirist, the journalist, the
singer and the story-teller all together. —Preface,
359
Van Dyke, Henry. Studies in Tennyson. Scribner, 1920.
360
Warren, Sir Thomas Herbert. Essays of poets and poetry
ancient and modern. Murray, 1909.
No lover of literature could read the volume without having his ad mirations quickened and harmonized, without a renewal of the sense of the dignity and sweetness of the old traditions of art and song. —Satur day Review.
361
Watts-Dunton, Theodore. Old familiar faces. Dutton,
1916.
362
Whiting, Lilian. The Brownings ; their life and art. Little, 1911.
363
Williams, Charles. Poetry at present. Oxford, 1930.
An excellent introduction to the work of sixteen contemporary poets who, in the author's opinion, have in however small an extent enlarged the boundaries of English verse. —Booklist.
364
Williams, Stanley Thomas. Studies in Victorian literature. Dutton, 1923.
365
Winchester, Caleb Thomas. William Wordsworth ; how to
know him. Bobbs, 1916.
Its criticism is usually sound and at times markedly penetrating. — Yale Review.
366
Woodberry, George Edward. Life of Edgar Allan Poe ; per
sonal and literary. 2v. Houghton, 1909.
Besides the interest in the personality and adventures of that "bright but unsteady light" of poetry, this authoritative life has "two special interests in that it was a life led outside of New England, and that it embodies much contemporaneous literary history not involved in any other life of our greater writers. " —Preface.
54 POETRY AND POETS 367
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Macmillan, 1907.
Charmingly written—the style so distinctive, the ideas so often lu minous and so generally fascinating. —Literary Digest.
368
Wylie, Eleanor. The orphan angel. Knopf, 1926.
Shelley is the hero of her story, Shelley rescued, near dead from drowning off Leghorn, by a Yankee clipper brig and, not unwillingly, carried off to America. —Saturday Review.
369
Yeats, William Butler. Essays. Macmillan, 1924.
It includes the essays originally collected under the titles Ideas of good and evil, The cutting of an agate, and Per arnica silentia lunae.
370
Young, F. E. Brett. Robert Bridges ; a critical study. Seeker, 1914.
VI.
TEXTS AND STUDIES OF THE POETS ARRANGED BY PERIODS OR
THE POETS' DATES
1
CONCERNING POETRY'S BEGINNING
War Cries, Labor Chanties and Lullabies
Auslander, J. The winged horse, by J. Auslander and F. E. Hill, p. 1-16.
[211]*
Gummere, F. B. The beginnings of poetry. [273]
The popular ballad.
Pound, Louise. Poetic origins and the ballad.
2 HOMER
[274]
"The great fact of ancient Greece is the poetry of Homer. " Texts:
Iliad; tr. by Alexander Pope.
Iliad; tr. into English blank verse by W. C. Bryant.
Iliad; done into English prose by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf and Ernest
Myers. [56]
Odyssey ; tr. by Alexander Pope.
Odyssey; tr. into English blank verse by W. C. Bryant.
Odyssey ; done into English prose by S. H. Butcher and A. Lang. Odyssey; tr. into English rhythmic prose by G. H. Palmer.
Texts: Simple versions:
Church, A. J. Iliad for boys and girls. [63]
Odyssey for boys and girls.
Colum, P. Adventures of Ulysses, and The tale of Troy.
Lang, A. Tales of Troy and Greece. Marvin, F. S. Adventures of Odysseus.
[60]
[62]
[54]
[57]
[64]
Comments:
Auslander, J. The winged horse, by J. Auslander and F. E. Hill, p. 19-29.
[211]
Jebb, Sir R. C. Homer; an introd. to the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Livingstone, R. W. Pageant of Greece, p. 15-78.
Mackail, J. W. Lectures on Greek poetry, p. 3-79. [305]
55
[285]
[65] [61]
[331]
[159]
[55]
[58]
[59]
56 POETRY AND POETS 3
GREEK POETRY
Their songs the patterns for ours today.
General Books
Texts:
Appleton, W. H. Greek poets in English verse. Dole, N. H. The Greek poets ; an anthology. Leaf, W. Little poems from the Greek. 2v.
Comments:
[140] [148]
[157]
Auslander, J. The winged horse, by J. Auslander and F. E. Hill, p. 30-
54.
Chapman, J. J. Greek genius. [229]
Dickinson, G. L. Greek view of life, p. 199-266.
Glover, T. R.
From Pericles to Philip.
Hamilton, E. The Greek way, p. 62-101 ; 138-150; 200-239. Livingstone, R. W. The legacy of Greece, p. 249-287.
[211]
[246] [267]
The pageant of Greece.
Mackail, J. W. Lectures on Greek poetry. Moulton, R. G. Ancient classical drama. Tyrrell, R. Y. Essays on Greek literature.
The Anthology
Texts:
[278] [158]
Lawton, W. C. The soul of the anthology. Leaf, W. Little poems from the Greek.
Hesiod
Texts:
[305] [318]
[356]
[75] [157]
156.
Tyrrell, R. Y. Essays on Greek literature, p. 1-40.
[284]
[159]
Hesiod and Theognis by James Davies.
The poems and fragments done into English prose by A. W. Mair.
[53]
Pindar
Texts:
Extant odes ; tr. by Ernest Myers. [97] Golden porch by W. M. L. Hutchinson. [70]
Comments:
Jebb, Sir R. C. Growth and influence of classical Greek poetry, p. 126-
[241]
[356]
TEXTS AND STUDIES ARRANGED BY PERIODS 57 Sappho
Text:
Fragments of the lyrical poems ; ed. by Edgar Lobel.
Comment:
Mackail, J. W. Lectures on Greek poetry, p. 83-112.
Theocritus
[115] [305]
Texts:
Theocritus, Bion and Moschus ; rendered into English prose by A. Lang.
[127]
Theocritus, Bion and Moschus; tr. into English verse by Arthur S.
Way.
Comment:
Mackail, J. W. Lectures on Greek poetry, p. 208-238.
4
GREEK DRAMA
[128]
[305]
How Grief and Beauty blended and became Greek tragedy. General Books
Texts:
Appleton, W. H. Greek poets in English verse by various hands.
Ten Greek plays; tr. by Gilbert Murray and others.
[3]
Comments:
Campbell, L. Tragic drama in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Shakespeare.
[226]
Goodell, T. D. Athenian tragedy. Moulton, R. G. Ancient classical drama.
Aeschylus
Texts:
Lyrical dramas; tr. into English verse by J. S. Blackie. [1]
Comments:
Campbell, L. Tragic drama in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Shakespeare.
[226]
Copleton, R. S. Aeschylus.
Goodell, T. D. Athenian tragedy, p. 183-201. Hamilton, E. The Greek way, p. 151-171. Smyth, H. W. Aeschylean tragedy.
[269]
[318]
[238]
[351]
[269] [278]
[125]
58 POETRY AND POETS
Aristophanes
Texts:
The Acharnians, and two other plays ; tr. by J. H. Frere. [4]
Comments:
Collins, W. L. Aristophanes.
[236] Hamilton, E. The Greek way, p. 102-137.
[278]
Lord, L. E. Aristophanes.
Euripides
[298]
Texts:
Euripides ; tr. into English rhyming verse by Gilbert Murray.
Medea, Trojan women, Electra; tr. by Gilbert Murray.
Comments:
Chapman, J. J. Greek genius, p. 1-131. [229] Glover, T. R. From Pericles to Philip, p. 136-162.
Goodell, T. D. Athenian tragedy, p. 233-283. Hamilton, E. The Greek way, p. 186-199.
Murray, G. Euripides and his age.
Sophocles
Text:
Tragedies ; tr. into English prose by Sir R. C. Jebb.
[44] [45]
Comments:
Campbell, Lewis. Tragic drama in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Shake
speare.
Goodell, T. D. Athenian tragedy, p. 202-232.
Hamilton, E. The Greek way, p. 172-185.
Mackail, J. W. Lectures on Greek poetry, p. 141-173. Tyrrell, R. Y. Essays on Greek literature, p. 41-84. Warren, Sir T. H. Essays of poets and poetry, p. 1-43.
5
LATIN POETRY
[211]
[226]
"Roman Power that was not of the Sword. " General Books
Texts:
Dole, N. H. The Latin poets.
Comments:
[149]
Auslander, J. The winged horse, by J. Auslander and F. E Hill, p. 55-
75.
[278] [320]
[267] [269]
[269] [278]
[120]
[305] [356]
[360]
TEXTS AND STUDIES ARRANGED BY PERIODS 59
Duff, J. W. Literary history of Rome. [252]
Mackail, J. W. Latin literature. [304]
Sellar, W. Y. Roman poets of the Augustan age. 2v. [345, 346]
Horace
Texts:
Complete works; tr. by various hands.
Comments:
Auslander, J. The winged horse, by J. Auslander and F. E. Hill, p. 55-
64.
Boissier, G. Country of Horace and Virgil.
Duff, J. W. Literary history of Rome, p. 496-545.
Haight, E. H. Horace and his art of enjoyment. Quiller-Couch, Sir A. Studies in literature, v. 1, p. 51-75. Rand, E. K. Walk to Horace's farm.
Sellar, W. Y. Horace and the elegiac poets.
Showerman, Grant. Horace and his influence.
[211]
Virgil
Texts:
Works: tr. into English prose by John Conington. Aeneid; done into English -verse by William Morris.
Comments:
[67]
[338]
[345]
[217]
[347]
[252] [277]
[334]
Auslander, J. The winged horse, by J.
