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Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1915

William Stanley Braithwaite, a talented poet in his own right, was most notable for his anthologies of poetry including these annual collections that spanned at least twelve years from 1913 to 1924. These were composed of poems written in that year, and included a wide range of poetry from classical to avant-garde. As an African American, he also included many selections from other African American poets. He is recognized as a significant publisher of Harlem Renaissance poets.

This volume includes poets such as Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale, Louis Untermeyer, Edgar Lee Masters, James Weldon Johnson, and many others. A special feature of this volume are several dramatic, collaborative presentations including Robert Frost’s “The Death of the Hired Man,” Vachel Lindsay’s “The Chinese Nightingale,” and “Gayheart” by Dana Burnet.
- Summary by Larry Wilson (8 hr 5 min)

Chapters

Introduction

27:41

Invocation by Wendell Phillips Stafford

1:28

Cradle Song by Josephine Preston Peabody

2:47

The Haunting Face by Robert Underwood Johnson

2:12

The Bacchante to Her Babe by Eunice Tietjens

2:51

The Musicmaker's Child by Miriam Allen de Ford

2:05

To Imagination by Dorothea Lawrence Mann

3:06

Heritage by Theresa Virginia Beard

3:54

A Spring Symphony by Amelia Josephine Burr

3:12

Peter Quince at the Clavier by Wallace Stevens

3:41

Joy by Sara Teasdale

0:46

Ballad of Amaryllis in the Shade by Richard Le Gallienne

2:15

Sunset Balconies by Thomas Walsh

1:49

La Gitana by John Curtis Underwood

3:11

Patterns by Amy Lowell

4:41

Ulysses in Ithaca by Amelia Josephine Burr

3:16

Song by Ruth Guthrie Harding

1:19

The New Platonist by Cuthbert Wright

2:13

A Cyprian Woman: Greek Folk Song by Margaret Widdemer

1:11

From a Car-Window by Ruth Guthrie Harding

0:58

We Who Have Loved by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

1:14

Cave Talk by Joseph Warren Beach

3:06

The Chinese Nightingale by Vachel Lindsay

12:47

Spring by Clement Wood

1:58

Needle Travel by Margaret French Patton

2:37

The Fairy Fort by Abbie Farwell Brown

1:59

Song by Edward J. O'Brien

0:48

For the Dedication of a Toy Theatre by Benjamin R.C. Low

2:26

The Courtyard Pigeons by Caroline Giltinan

1:16

The Barberry Bush by Grace Hazard Conkling

5:40

Green Symphony by John Gould Fletcher

6:04

Serenade by William Griffith

1:01

Sea Iris by H.D.

1:03

Birches by Robert Frost

4:10

Hills by Arthur Guiterman

1:29

The Cloud by Sara Teasdale

1:22

The Mirage by Nathan Haskell Dole

0:52

Fire Castles by Arvia MacKaye

1:20

Vistas by Odell Shepard

1:52

Sun-browned with Toil by Edward F. Garesché, S.J.

3:11

July by Mahlon Leonard Fisher

1:23

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

1:19

Hymn to the Dairymaids on Beacon Street by Christopher Morely

1:59

Passages from a Poem: The New World by Witter Bynner

10:08

The Maker of Images by Brian Hooker

5:21

The Home of Horace by George Meason Whicher

3:19

Sister Mary Veronica by Nancy Byrd Turner

2:23

The Adventurer by Odell Shepard

1:18

Flammonde by Edwin Arlington Robinson

5:34

Gayheart by Dana Burnet

22:31

To a Gentleman Reformer by Louis Untermeyer

1:12

Old King Cole by Edwin Arlington Robinson

4:34

Lincoln by Wendell Phillips Stafford

1:10

To Edgar Lee Masters by Richard Butler Glaenzer

2:38

Washington McNeely by Edgar Lee Masters

2:14

The Vinegar Man by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

2:21

Hannah Armstrong by Edgar Lee Masters

1:29

Beyond the War by Olive Tilford Dargan

6:46

A Vision of Spring by Ridgely Torrence

6:50

The Laughters by Louis Untermeyer

4:08

God and the Strong Ones by Margaret Widdemer

3:14

On the Porch by Harriet Monroe

1:47

Men Have Wings at Last by Josephine Preston Peabody

5:54

Sure, It's Fun! by Richard Butler Glaenzer

2:41

Harvest Moon: 1914 by Josephine Preston Peabody

2:21

The Wind in the Corn by E. Sutton

4:17

Battle Sleep by Edith Wharton

1:37

The Bombardment by Amy Lowell

7:13

The Pyres by Hermann Hagedorn

3:09

Sing, Ye Trenches! by Helen Coale Crew

2:13

1915 by James Oppenheim

7:30

The White Ships and the Red by Joyce Kilmer

4:31

The Return of August by Percy Mackaye

5:26

Prayer for Peace by William Samuel Johnson

3:53

Sonnets Written in the Fall of 1914 by George Edward Woodberry

6:37

The Fruit Shop by Amy Lowell

8:49

The Paradox by Don Maquis

1:12

Over Night, A Rose by Caroline Giltinan

1:15

Harvest by Dana Burnet

2:45

The Night Court by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

5:23

Pax Beata by Mary Rachel Norris

1:58

The Service by Burges Johnson

2:10

Testament by Sara Teasdale

1:01

A Statue in a Garden by Agnes Lee

1:24

Fate by Richard Burton

1:07

The Answer by Sara Teasdale

0:56

The White Witch by James Weldon Johnson

3:23

The Vanished Country by Grantland Rice

1:42

The Death of the Hired Man by Robert Frost

8:57

Swimmers by Louis Untermeyer

4:03

If One Should Come by Mahlon Leonard Fisher

1:18

Voyage a L'infini by Walter Conrad Arensberg

1:21

The Last Piper by Edward J. O'Brien

1:24

Time by Florence Earle Coates

3:06

Silence by Edgar Lee Masters

3:41

Madison Cawein by Margaret Steele Anderson

2:10

The Bird and the Tree by Ridgely Torrence

2:16

Interlude by William Griffith

0:39

Spring Song by William Griffith

0:45

Cassandra by Edwin Arlington Robinson

2:10

Sainte Jeanne of France by Marion Couthouy Smith

2:09

To My Country by Charles Hanson Towne

1:23

The Best Poetry of 1915, Part 1

26:47

The Best Poetry of 1915, Part 2

25:27

The Best Poetry of 1915, Part 3

25:23

The Best Poetry of 1915, Part 4

28:03

List of Important Publications Dealing with Poets and Poetry

29:06