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Modern dramatic verse draws fire from new books of poetry
A review of 1908 verse releases notes a surge of dramatic treatments and classical themes. It surveys works by Miller, Lodge, Schutze, Hag edorn, Chapman, Pickhardt, Doyle, and others, praising a shift toward life like stage drama and near real settings rather than purely academic pageantry. It highlights ballads, lyric anthologies, and new editions from Macmillan, Stokes, Dodd Mead, and Houghton Mifflin, with notes on translations and heritage verse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss May Sinclair
Aeschylus
Shakespeare
Chicago University Press
Frank Justus Miller
Troy
Dido
J. Raleigh Nelson
Herakles
Houghton Mifflin Company
George Cabot Lodge
Prometheus
Hero
Leander
Henry Helt & Co
Martin Schutze
Schutze
Mr. Bernard Shaw
Greece
Boston
Sherman, French & Co
Howard V. Sutherland
Prokris
Kephalos
Aurora
Duncan
August MacDougall
F. A. Stokes Company
Poe
William Blake
Milton
Browning
Shelley
Wordsworth
Keats
Tennyson
Chaucer
Bridge
Spenser
British Museum