I KEEP WONDERING

I saw a mountain,

And he was like Wotan looking at himself in the water.

I saw a cockatoo,

And he was like sunset clouds.

Even leaves and little stones

Are different to my eyes sometimes.

I keep wondering through and through my heart
Where all the beautiful things in the world

Come from.

And while I wonder

They go on being beautiful.

The following twelve volumes deal, in considerable detail, with many of the poets, groups and tendencies considered in this collection. A few treat principally of the period between 1860 and 1890; the majority, however, reflect the shifting course of contemporary poetry. Most of the dozen contain liberal quotations, references, illustrative poems and suggestions for supplementary reading.

AIKEN, CONRAD. Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry. Alfred A. Knopf. 1919.

BOYNTON, PERCY H. A History of American Literature. Ginn and Company.

1919.

BROOKS, VAN WYCK. America's Coming of Age. (Chapters II and III.) B. W. Huebsch. 1915.

EASTMAN, MAX. Enjoyment of Poetry. Charles Scribner's

Sons. 1913.

LOWELL, AMY. Tendencies in Modern American Poetry. The Macmillan Company. 1917.

LOWES, JOHN LIVINGSTON. Convention and Revolt in Poetry. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1919.

MONROE, HARRIET, and ALICE CORBIN HENDERSON. The New

Poetry-An Anthology. The Macmillan Company. 1917. MORRIS, LLOYD R. The Young Idea (An Anthology of Opinion). Duffield and Company. 1917.

PATTEE, FRED LEWIS. A History of American Literature Since 1870. The Century Company. 1915.

RITTENHOUSE, JESSIE B. The Younger American Poets. (1860 to 1900). Little, Brown and Company. 1904.

UNTERMEYER, LOUIS. The New Era in American Poetry. Henry Holt and Company. 1919.

WILKINSON, MARGUERITE. New Voices. The Macmillan Company. 1919.

INDEX

Names of Authors are in Capitals. Titles of Poems are in Italics.