"Guns as Keys" in Can Grande's Castle and John Gould Fletcher's "The Passing of the West" in Breakers and Granite. For a discussion of other rimeless forms than free verse, see Brander Matthews: A Study of Versification, Chapter IX. Whitman's "The Singer in the Prison" combines free verse with rimed regular verse in an interesting manner. Poems in free verse quoted in other chapters are:-Fletcher: "Blake" (i); Crapsey: "Triad" (ix) and "The Warning" (ix); Fletcher: "Broadway's Canyon" (xi); Sandburg: "Chicago" (xi) and "A. E. F." (xii); Masters: "George Gray" (xii) and "John Hancock Otis" (xii). CHAPTER XI. POEMS STUDIED BY THEME Poe's discussion of "The Raven" is found in “The Philosophy of Composition." Other poems on death will be found in Chapters III, IX, and X. The following poems on old age may be profitably compared:-Tennyson: "Ulysses" (v) ; Browning: "Rabbi ben Ezra"; Arnold: "Growing Old"; Longfellow: "Morituri Salutamus"; Holmes: "The Old Man Dreams"; Dobson: "Growing Gray"; Robinson: "Isaac and Archibald"; Masefield: "On Growing Old." Most of the poems about Lincoln are found in Mary WrightDavis's The Book of Lincoln. An earlier and less complete anthology is A. Dallas Williams's The Praise of Lincoln. For discussion of Lincoln's rôle in poetry, see Carl Van Doren: "The Poetical Cult of Lincoln" in The Nation for May 17, 1919; and John Drinkwater's Lincoln, the WorldEmancipator. Other nature poems in the book are:-Burns: "Afton Water" (ii); Stevenson: "Requiem" (ii); Kipling: "The Gipsy Trail" (ii); Shelley: "To Night" (ii); Swinburne: "The Garden of Proserpine" (iii); Wordsworth: "I Wandered Lonely" (iii); Shelley: "To a Skylark" (iii); Cowper: "The Poplar Field" (iv); Swinburne: "A Forsaken Garden" (iv); Shelley: "The Cloud" (iv); Lanier: "The Song of the Chattahoochee" (iv); Yeats: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (iv); Masefield: "The West Wind" (iv); Wordsworth: From The Prelude (v) ; Keats: From "Hyperion" (v); Tennyson: "Ulysses" (v); Bryant: From "The Prairies" (v); Emerson: "The Snow Storm" (v); Frost: "Mending Wall" (v) and "The Tuft of Flowers" (v); Gray: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (v); Byron: From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (v) ; Shelley: "Ode to the West Wind" (v); Keats: "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" (vii); Wordsworth: “The World is Too Much with Us" (vii); Shelley: "Ozymandias" (vii); Keats: "On the Grasshopper and Cricket" (vii); Lang: "Ballade to Theocritus in Winter" (viii); McCrae; "In Flanders Fields" (viii); Bunner: "A Pitcher of Mignonette" (viii); Scollard: "In the Sultan's Garden" (viii); Goethe: "Wanderer's Night-songs" (ix); Arnold: "Philomela" (x); Whitman: "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" (x) and "As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods" (x); Henley: "Margaritae Sorori" (x); Fletcher: "Exit" (x); Gibson: "Prelude" (xii); Robinson: "The Dark Hills" (xii) and "Monadnock through the Trees" (xii). Interesting poems dealing with the city are:-Bryant: "The Hymn of the City"; Harte: "San Francisco"; Masters: "The Loop"; Amy Lowell: "Towns in Color," in her Men, Women and Ghosts. See also many poems in Fletcher: Breakers and Granite and Sandburg: Chicago Poems. CHAPTER XII. THE CONTEMPORARY POETS Interesting discussions of contemporary poets are found in Amy Lowell: Tendencies in Modern American Poetry; Louis Untermeyer: The New Era in American Poetry; Conrad Aiken: Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry; Mary C. Sturgeon: Studies of Contemporary Poets; Manly and Rickert: Contemporary British Literature and Contemporary American Literature; Marguerite Wilkinson: New Voices; Arthur Waugh: Tradition and Change; John Erskine: The Kinds of Poetry; Lowes: Convention and Revolt in Poetry; Phelps: The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century. 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