Madison Cawein
Poems
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About the print version:
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
City:New York, N.Y.
Date:1911
POEMS
BY
MADISON CAWEIN
(SELECTED BY THE AUTHOR)
WITH
A FOREWORD BY WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY1911 All rights reserved
COPYRIGHT, 1911,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1911.
NORWOOD PRESS
J. S. Cushing Co. -- Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
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INTRODUCTORY NOTE
THE verses composing this volume have been selected by the author almost
entirely from the five-volume edition of his poems published by the
Bobbs-Merrill Company in 1907. A number have been included from the three or
four volumes which have been published since the appearance of the Collected
Poems; namely, three poems from the volume entitled "Nature Notes and
Impressions," E. P. Dutton & Co., New York; one poem from "The Giant and the
Star," Small, Maynard & Co., Boston; Section VII and part of Section VIII of "An
Ode" written in commemoration of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,
and published by John P. Morton & Co., Louisville, Ky.; some five or six poems
from "New Poems," published in London by Mr. Grant Richards in 1909; and three
or four selections from the volume of selections entitled "Kentucky Poems,"
compiled by Mr. Edmund Gosse and published in London by Mr. Grant Richards in
1902. Acknowledgment and thanks for permission to reprint the various poems
included in this volume are herewith made to the different publishers.
The two poems, "In Arcady" and "The Black Knight" are new and are published here
for the first time.
In making the selections for the present book Mr. Cawein has endeavored to cover
the entire field of his poetical labors, which extends over a quarter of a
century. With the exception of his dramatic ...
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