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Show SUNDAY NIGHT CEUB BEARS PROF. SNOW, The speaker last night at the meet- I ing of the Sunday Night club in the Guild hall was Prof. Charles W Snow of the University of Utah. His subject sub-ject was "The Modern Movement in English Poetry" and his discussion proved of much interest to a good-sized good-sized audience. In part, he said "In 1888 Walter Pater 6aid that true poetry had died. He thought it died with Tennyson and there were others who believed with him. After Tennvson came a group of poets called call-ed the Trerafaelites. They were artistic ar-tistic poetB, but they never made an nipresbion on the people becaiiBe they lid not touch truly the economic life of the people. After them came a '"lass called the society poets They introduced the French verse atmosphere atmo-sphere into English poetry, but wrote nothing that had any impression on the people either Tho next effect on English poetry' was that given by the Irish ports who carried the myth fnd spirit of Ireland into poetry' Neither Nei-ther was this of lasting popularity. "The next movement in English poetry was what might be called tho modern movement or the poetry of social democracy and it is thin poetry I think which will surpass that of the Victorian era The first apostle of the poetry of social democracy was Walt Whitman, a man who did something new and who made a big impression on the whole Anglo-Saxon race. Kudyard Kipling is the other exponent of this modern poetry. "Whitman furnished the ideas of the modern style and Kipling popu larlzed the poetry. These two men have started a revolution and a move ment w hich will be greatly felt by all English-speaking people. "With the coming of science, poetry po-etry and art of all kind declined. Peo-p'e Peo-p'e started to become satisfied with the common things of life. We must le something, however, to satisfy our emotional side and in response (.o this, this great modern trend in poetry has arisen. The world is under a : movement of a gTeat emotional cri-' cri-' sis and is repudiating the laying of too much interest upon the mere things of reason. "I believe that the present movement move-ment in poetry is going to result In greater poetry than that of the Victorian Vic-torian age because it is a communistic communis-tic movement, while the other was an individualistic movement Two men making the biggest stir in this movement at present arc John Maae-field Maae-field and W W. GlbBon. Masefield is carrying out Kipling's work and Gibson that of Whitman. Masefield s poem, "The Everlasting Mercy," is a good example of the whole feeling and atmosphere of thiB new moement" no |
