“Your newspapers are really wonderful in many ways; they are positively audacious, astonishing, but they are the worst in the world for discovering genius. … It was an awful shame that a second-rate critic from England should have to be called in to tell Americans who their poets are.” — John Cowper Powys (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 29, 1915)
Early praise for Illinois poet Edgar Lee Masters. His “Spoon River Anthology” was first published in 1915. (Post-Dispatch 3/29/1915)
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