1925 The Measure Poetry Edward Sapir 4 Poems Padraic Colum Rolfe Humphries

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Original July 1925 issue of The Measure: A Journal of Poetry, featuring a particularly strong group of poems by Edward Sapir, the influential linguist and anthropologist who also maintained a serious literary life as a poet. This issue includes four Sapir poems: “Be Not Afraid of Beauty” “Quiescence” “Lovers’ Night” “Where the Little Children Ride” It also includes work by: George H. Dillon George O’Neil Eda Lou Walton Rolfe Humphries Padraic Colum Marie Luhrs Lindley Williams Hubbell Elizabeth Sanderson Loretta Roche Notable Contributors Edward Sapir was one of the most important American linguists and anthropologists of the 20th century. His poetry is much less commonly encountered than his academic work, giving original magazine appearances like this one strong crossover appeal to collectors of anthropology, linguistics, intellectual history, and modernist poetry. “Be Not Afraid of Beauty” is documented as having been published in The Measure 53, July 1925, and “Lovers’ Night” is likewise specifically cited as appearing in this issue. Padraic Colum contributes the appreciation “Louise Townsend Nicholl: An Appreciation.” Colum was an important Irish poet, dramatist, folklorist, and member of the Irish Literary Revival. Rolfe Humphries contributes the review “Précieuse, Model 1924.” He later became well known as a poet and translator of classical literature. Why It Matters This is stronger than a routine issue of The Measure because it offers a concentrated group of four Edw

• Year: 1925
• Condition: Good

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