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Challenge

Louis Untermeyer introduced may students to poetry through his many collections that he edited. His own poetry ranges from inspirational to cynical. Challenge is his first collection of poems, mature, but reflecting many of his early struggles. The range from the deeply spiritual to the sentimental and social commentary. - Summary by Larry Wilson (1 hr 51 min)

Chapters

Summons

Prayer

To Arms

On the Birth of a Child

How Much of Godhood

The Great Carousal

Thanks

God's Youth

In the Berkshire Hills

Voices

Reveation

Affirmation

Downhill on a Bicycle

Midnight by the Open Window

The Wine of Night

Invocation

"Feuerzauber"

Sunday Night

At Kennebunkport

In a Strange City

Folk-song

In the Streets

Envy

A Birthday

Leaving the Harbor

The Shell to the Pearl

The Young Mystic

Healed

The Stirrup-cup

Spring on Broadway

In a Cab

Summer Night Broadway

Haunted

Isadora Duncan Dancing

Chopin

Songs and the Poet

The Heretic

Fifth Avenue Spring Afternoon

Tribute

Challenge

Caliban in the Coal-mines

Any City

Landscapes

Two Funeral

Sunday

Strikers

In the Subway

Battle-cries

A Voice from the Sweat-shops

Soldiers

Peace

The Dying Decadent

Funeral Hymn

Protests