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    A Note on T. S. Eliot's Book

    the twoLondon pieces.Whistler inhis post-impressionistic


    English studies-and thesepoems'are not entirelyunlike
    Whistler's studies-had the advantageof his more static
    medium,of a somewhat more romantictemperament, and
    of the fact that the objects he painted half-hid their ugli
    ness undvr shadows and the haze of distance. But Eliot
    deals with life, with beings and thingswho live and move
    almost nakedlybeforehis individualmind's eye-in the
    darkness, in the early sunlight, and in the fog. Whatever
    one may feel about sweetness in literature, there is also the
    word honesty, and thisman is-a faithful friend of the objects
    who really
    unlike thesentimentalist
    he portrays;altogether
    stabs them treacherously in the back while pretending affec
    tion. M. M.
    SEND AMERICAN POETS

    Why not sendpoets to the front?Not to the trenches,


    for' active service, where many of them now are, but as
    officialgovernment agents to see and to recordthiswar
    forfuturegenerations?The newspapercorrespondent has
    an officialposition; thereare officialcameramen, official
    movingpicturephotographers; why not poets in a similar
    capacity? As a matter of fact Italy has D'Annunzio at the
    front;JohnMasefield and RudyardKipling have visited
    westernand easternfrontsand publishedtheirimpressions;
    why notAmericanpoets? It is truethatbothMasefield and
    Kipling havewritten theirimpressionsin prose,with the
    exceptionof theirearly restrained
    poemson thewar-the

    [37]
    POETRY: A Magazine of Verse

    poem on thiswar thatwill live can not be born save by slow,


    gradual,accumulative
    process.But bothmen, in theirprose,
    have exhibiteda sensitiveness
    to impressions
    far exceeding
    that of the ordinary correspondent; they have given us more
    thanjournalism.
    What big magazine will be progressive enough to send an
    American poet to the front as an accredited correspondent?
    Mr. Ring Lardner has been over for Collier's-I wish Col
    lier's would send Carl Sandburg or Edgar Lee Masters or
    Vachel Lindsayover!
    If we realized sufficiently the importance of our literary
    men, our literature would be a more vital and intimate part
    of our lives, and itwould be increasingly virile. It isworth
    noting that our poetry is now in closer touch with our lives
    than any other form of native art. A. C. H.

    REVIEWS

    "TO WHO0M IT MAY CONCERN

    al Que Quiere! byWilliam Carlos Williams. Four Seas Co.


    As preface to these poems the publishers have been, I
    think, foolish in dealing the "gentle reader," as they are
    pleased to call him, a kind of blow over the head. They
    advertisethebook as "brutallypowerful"and "scornfully
    crude." They intimidate one with themagnificent news that
    Mr. Williams "doesn't give a damn for your opinion" and
    that "his opinion of you ismore important than your opinion
    of him." They end by "venturing to predict that the poets

    [38]

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