The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-26
PROF. REED TELLS OF MODERN POETS
 IN LECTURE HERE
Graduates ASSOcia- ton of COurtIand School
 Interestingly.

The Graduates Association of the
 Courtland School held the first lec- ture of their annual course yesterday | afternoon at the home of Miss Marion
 Paige, 219 Park avenue. Prof. Ed ward Bliss Reed of Yale University, l gave a most interesting talk on l Present Day American Verse; tell 1 ing of the American poets of today l and reading selections from the best | of their works before the large gath
 ering of women who were present.
 Prof. Reed advocated reading the l work of the young writers of today,
 not, that in the poetical field any of | them are equal to Shelley, Keats, Byron, Wordsworth and the other 1 immortaIs but that as we live today, we should know what is being pro- duced today.
 The four poets now writing what Prof. Reed considers the best, artistic American verse. are Fannie Stearns Davis, Sarah TesdaIe, Brian Hooker and Louis Untemeyer. The poets who are fin revolt' are Amy Lowell, Vache1 Lindsay, Masters and Robert Frost.
 Miss Davis work is distinctly artis- tic but rather cold, he says, and mar rowato entit1el its author to be called thel coming American poet It deals particularly with nature. and is exceedingly beautiful Miss Teas dale's work is entirely opposite from that of Miss Davis in that it is full of romance. love and affection.
 Brian Hooker of Yale, is known through his work with Prof. Horatio w. Parker, the composer, which pro- cured two $10.Oo0 prizes. Hooker is the most promising of all the young Yale men who are writing. His work. however. needs a little more force His 'tLilacs in the City, which Prof. Reed read. is one of the duced.
 Louis sUnteneyer is a poet of dis tinct origin ality, wonderful strength, fine diction and a splendid appre- citation of nature. He is a good deal of an 1nsurgent, he said, and his poems are tinged with perhaps too much socialism. .tMockery'' and t'Lan dscapes's were read as examples 1 of his work.
 Amy Lowell. sister of President Lo- 1 well of Harvard, was given as one of the best examples of the poets in revoH'' These poets. who corres- pond to the futurists in art. are trying l to get away from all the old forms of poetry, and to write "something 1 new. Their work, while it could 1 never be as pleasing as the old form. IS at least decidedly original and some of it is striking.
 Lindsay is. perhaps, the most in- teresting of the new poets. both in 1 his personality and in his work. He is 8 westerner and his poems breath the spirit of the west. His "The Proud Farmer and General Booth | Enters Heaven,'' were read by Prof. | Reed
 t'The Spoon River Anthology" by | Masters, which is causing wide com | ment. is not so highly rated by Prof. | Reed. He considers parts of 1t as splendid but says that he would leave | out about one-ha1f of the book were it his choice It is a most peculiar | and original work, arranged like a | dictionary, and giving a history of the | mythical characters, in the new form of object poetry.''
 North of Boston, by Robert Frost, | is a book of blank verse which is de- cidedIy worthy of notice. The work l of this young writer is not finely ar tistic but is original, forcefuI and | thoroughly American. His power of l description is particularly splendid. 4 Tn conclusion. Prof. Reed said that l while there are no geniuses writing | today there are several very interest ing men and swomn whose work bears much promise, and is worthy of mo- tfce @-7