BIBLIOGRAPHY

Candles that Burn. 1919.
Vigils. 1921.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 54 ('21): 384.
Nation, 109 ('19): 116.
New Repub. 29 ('21): 133.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1919, 1921.

+Grace Elizabeth King+--novelist.

Born at New Orleans, 1852, and educated there and in France. Her stories
and novels furnish material for an interesting comparison with the work
of G.W. Cable (q.v.). Her writing grew out of the desire to present from
the inside the Creole Society in which she had grown up, to which she
felt that Mr. Cable, as an outsider, had not done justice.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Monsieur Motte. 1888.
Balcony Stories. 1893.
The Pleasant Ways of St. Medard. 1916.

For reviews, see _Pattee_; also _Book Review Digest_, 1916.

+Harry Herbert Knibbs+ (Ontario, Canada, 1874)--poet.

His material is cowboy life. For bibliography see _Who's Who in America_.

+Alfred Kreymborg+--poet.

Born in New York City, 1883, of Danish ancestry. Educated at the Morris
High School. A chess prodigy at the age of ten, and supported himself
from seventeen to twenty-five by teaching chess and playing matches. Had
several years of experience as bookkeeper.

In 1914, founded and edited _The Glebe_, which issued the first anthology
of free verse. In 1916, 1917, 1919, published _Others_--three anthologies
of radical poets. In 1921, went to Rome to edit, in association with
Harold Loeb, an international magazine of the arts called _The Broom_
(cf. _Dial_ 70 ['21]: 606), but shortly after resigned.

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

1. Mr. Kreymborg is a rebel against all conventions of form and content
in poetry. Consequently, the one thing to be expected in his work is the
unexpected. How far his utterances are sincere and how far posed, each
reader must judge for himself.

2. The following quotation from _Poetry_ (9 ['16]: 51) may serve as a
starting-point in discussing Mr. Kreymborg's qualities: "An insinuating,
meddlesome, quizzical, inquiring spirit; sometimes a clown, oftener a
wit, now and then a lyric poet ... trips about cheerfully among life's
little incongruities; laughs at you and me and progress and prejudice and
dreams; says 'I told you so!' with an air, as if after a double
somersault in the circus ring; grows wistful, even tender, with emotions
always genuine ... always ... as becomes the harlequin-philosopher,
entertaining."

3. The new movements in art--Futurist, Cub