Passing Through Shanghai in Early October To write successful poetry in a foreign tongue is a feat of which few can boast, Even more difeult must be the task of the person of the east or of the west, who seeks to write lyrically in the language of the other race, yet such Is the accomplishment of Bir. Yano Noguchi, a poet of Keio University.
Mr, Noguchi will arrive in Shang~ hal on October 7 on his way to Java, Siam, and India, where he will deliver a series of lectures on Japan ese poetry and art. It is hoped that during his short stay in Shanghai Mr. Noguchi will find time to lecture.
Mr. Noguchi's forthcoming tour will not be his frst absence from his own Tountry. As a youth he spent some years in America and later visited England where his publication, "From the Eastern Sea," drew forth much favourable comment.
Educated at Keio Gijuku University Tokyo, where he is now professor of English literature, Mr. Noguchi left his homeland first in 1808 when he alled for America to study the ways of Western people. On his arrival in San Francisco he joined some of his fellow countrymen, who published a small paper. For {wo years he acted as their carrier without receiving any remuneration. He used to sleep on a table at night with a volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica for a pillow.
Early Poetical Training Later he went to school and in his spare. time was employed domestic servant, Tt was about two heard of the late whom he visited and for three years was his devoted pupil. While he was with Mr. Miller he published his frst poems in "The Lark," a small magazine published in San Francisco.
was in 1903 that Mr. Noguchi crossed the Atlantic and visited 'London, where he lived in obscurity for some time until "From the Eastern Sea," was published. From then on he' became more and more famous, and was recognized by such men as'Mr, Austin Dobson, Mr, George Meredith, Mr. Thomas Hardy, and Mr, Andrew Long. It was th latter who, writing of Mr. Noguchi's poems, said "They appear to me to contain many charming thin and to show a remarkable command our language."
The following year, 1904, Mr. Noguchi returned to his native land fatter an absence of eleven years. He visited England again in 1913, when hho lectured on Japanese poetry at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1920 he. completed a successful tour in
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