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Show Renaissance of Poetry. That there is today whatever may have been the case a few years ago an Increasing nublic which is eacerlv on the lookout for new volumes of worthy verse by present day writers is evidently recognized by those whose business it is to know what literary wares are in current demand; and we must no longer be asked to believe that any bard of really appreciable talent need languish in enforced silence si-lence through inability to find a publisher. pub-lisher. As for the caus3 of this agreeably agree-ably unexpected revival, I am myself inclined to look for it though this may sound paradoxical in the very conditions which make it so surprising. surpris-ing. What I mean is that I believe the working of the law of reaction to have set up a revived hankering after poetry as a kind of respite from the ultra-prosaic materialism and "prac-ticalism," "prac-ticalism," if one may coin such a word, of every day life in this machine ma-chine ridden twentieth century-Bookseller. |