The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-06
MN WITH h HOE
Question as to the Poetic
Greatness of Its Author
WHO EDWIN MARKHAM IS
And How He Came to Write
His Notable Poem.
WHO EDWIN MARKHAM IS

New York, June 3.-The Doubleday &
Mcclure company have in press for inme-
date publication The Man Wlthe the
Hoe and Other Poems" BY Edwin Mark
ham. From advance proofs the Herald
has prepared and printed the following re-
view OF the book: As 4 wildly iu5ilant
West IS looking forward to this book as
| the great literary event OF the genera
ton, II is well 70 stop and make a few
remarks upon poetry in eneral and then
| specify the particular place which The
! Man With the Hoe" should occupy In con-
temporary verse. The poet then, II he be
| nothing else than a mere artihcer OF
| jeweled phrase. IS the prophet OF a new
| dlSpensation. Social convention is the
thin upper crust over a volcano that may
| at any moment break out into fierce ac-
/ ton. good, honest, easy men 20 20 and
from their ally tasks treading on this
thin crust, with no f0re-knowledge OF the
possible upheaval that a every moment
threatens its integrity. They accept what
IS IS what ought to be. Content with a
condition OF things that yields comfort 10
| many and affiuenee to a few. they have
| no CONSCIOUSNESS Of the angry uudercur-
rents surging within the breasts OF the
awful majority 10 whom adluence Is an
imp0ssibilrty and comfort an iridescent inn
probability.
But the true p rophet. the true poet.
has an ear sensltively alive 10 the In
articulate eiamors from deeps. He puts
these inarticulate clamors into art.cuIate
form. The dumb and s0u,less majority
claim him as taeir spokesman. Good
honest, easy men Of the present may fall
to recognize his audacious utterauce the
tCcsin Of the past. the alarum OF the fu-
ture. They continue their pathway to
and fro upon tAe crust OF present OF pres-
ent convention. Mayhsp they look upon
him as a fool, or. worse sJiu as an an
arehst, perversely and wlckcGly seeking
10 overturn the established order y hich
brings plum pudding to some and bread
OF many.
But the folly Of one generation becomes
the wisdom Of the next. The French
revolution had its germ in the 'Marse.l-
laise" and eliminated with the ''Ca Ira"
The arlstocrats who turned a deaf ear 90
the former and continued their mad dance
over the PROSTATE form Of the p.e1ian
woke 70 see that form resurent and ended
by finding themselves strung up 90 Ian
terms 10 the music Of the latter
Is such a revolution impending IA Amer /
ica-a bloodless revolution This time I
fought not with bullets, bur win ballots?
II so, Edwin Markham VIII prove 70 be /.
at once its despised prophet and us ac- f.
cepted high priest He sang h.S ~Msr- I
seiuaLse" in many a hymn la honor q +
labor. whose sound and fgry slgnlfe1 /
nothing for the moment Then ne caught /
the mob with the ga Ira" now tsrs-
Gus as his Man With the Hoe" AL 4
readers Of the eHrald. into watch thar .
poem was copied On Us first appearance.
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t.ce and atonemeut
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res onsive echoes everywhere. Provoked
by Allets famous painting. smpaaalze1 .
By the quotation from Tee B.als "-i1i
made man in his own image 70 vas
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freedomed 70 hopeless toll. white others.
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