The literary digest . THE WARNING OF TO-DAY IN GERMANY. Under the caption, The Great Evenmg in Germany, the LeipziglUustrirle Zcitung forewarns the dominance of the radical agitator. ADVANCED POETS CONDEMNED BY MR. HEARST— Poets who write in ways that seem strange to conservar-tive critics and the common run of readers are attacked froma new angle by Mr. Hearsts Chicago Examiner. Theadvanced poets, those with an aversion not only for rime, but for syntax also, are criti-cized because they are notreally interested in Ufe, eitheras it is or as it might be. AmyLoweU, by some considered theleader
The literary digest . THE WARNING OF TO-DAY IN GERMANY. Under the caption, The Great Evenmg in Germany, the LeipziglUustrirle Zcitung forewarns the dominance of the radical agitator. ADVANCED POETS CONDEMNED BY MR. HEARST— Poets who write in ways that seem strange to conservar-tive critics and the common run of readers are attacked froma new angle by Mr. Hearsts Chicago Examiner. Theadvanced poets, those with an aversion not only for rime, but for syntax also, are criti-cized because they are notreally interested in Ufe, eitheras it is or as it might be. AmyLoweU, by some considered theleader of the poetical advance-guard of our day, started thedifficulty by her recent pro-nouncement to the effect thatthe poets are always the ad-vance-guard of literature; theadvance-guard of life. TheExaminer proceeds with theexamination: Miss Lowell, whose brotheris president of Harvard Uni-versity, has been illustratingher dictum herself opening paragraph of oneof her more ambitious poemsruns as follows: D
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