There was a large gathering of members and friends of memb=rs of ican Woman's Club ab weekly meeting at the Palace Hotel, and after tea they had the pleasure of bearing Mrs. on and assistant editor of " Poetry—a Magazine of Verse," of Chicrgo, of which Harriet Monroe is editor and which is the first magazine to appear entirely im verse, Mre. Tistjens is well qualified to discuss the subject.
Mrs, Tistjons dealt entirely with American poetry and confined her remarks only to the present-day posts at that, making no attempt to enter the larger field of Ameri-oan poetry generally. Bhe believes that the poets who really count one the younger generation now so much in vogue, and en fact her whole lecture may be summed up asia plea for the greater recognition of contemporary American poetry by' a larger audience. Poetry, she admitted, is now more read and better appreciated in America than. ever before, more books of verse are pub¥shed, and more space ie given to poetry in the magazines to-day than in the past. Bub in order that the younger posts may be enoouraged to do more appreciative work, they aced still Inrgor appreciative audiences, Mrs. Tietjens read selections from the works of Edgar Lee Masters, who created #0 much interest with his "Snoon River Anthrology,"" Vochel Tndsav, Sire Teasdale, and Arthur Davison Fiche, all poets of the moment.
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