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Show American Poetry. Amortcan pootry ts occnslonal, not professional; something nsldo from tho day's work, Instead of being tho day's work. Drowning wroto n poem n day for n stated porlod, applying his every working hour to tho tnsk undortnkon. Drowning Is nn example of a professional profes-sional poet Wo cannot bonst of such nn oxnmple. John Iltirroughs boasts of only ono poom cnllod "Wnltlng." Haw. thorno nnd Webster wroto two or thrco poems. Cooper wroto threo, Ilrynnt had n dny'a work to do In n nowspnpor nluco. nn did Kuguno Field, whllo nmorson had lectures to deliver. Sldnoy Lnnlor wns a fluto plnynr In A llnltlmOro orchestra. Joaquin Miller Is writing pe-oms whllo ho plows like Hums. |