POETRY: A Magazine of Verse
NEW ANTHOLOGIES
Mr. Carrington brings to his task as anthologist the same rare sense of selection and discrimination that distinguish him as a collector and connoisseur of fine prints. This, in a time when taste, as an artistic canon, is more or less in abeyance, is worth recording.
In The Quiet Hour Mr. Carrington has selected from old and modern poets poems largely of a reflective mood and suitable for reading by both young and grown-up people at the twilight hour. The poems are arranged under the separate headings, Cradle Songs, Infancy, Childhood, Night, Sleep, Charms and Dirges, and the book is illustrated by reproductions of rare prints and engravings of the authors included. Those who have enjoyed, as I have long enjoyed, Mr. Carrington's other anthologies, The King's Garland, The Queen's Garland, The Shepherd's Pipe, and The Pilgrim's Staff, will welcome this new volume.
The new anthology edited by Miss Rittenhouse is a companion volume to her Little Book of Modern Verse, issued last year. The arrangement is chronological, beginning with Philip Freneau and ending with Paul Lawrence Dunbar, who died recently. The modern selection of course was more
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