W. W. STRICKLAND
Epicurean Essays
in Verse and Prose
The volume is a collection of thirty-eight essays in prose and verse ranging over a very wide field. There are sonnets, lovesongs, satirical verse, essays on scientific and philosophical questions, brief “skits”, and a complete précis of the whole of the Kalevalá, the great Finn Epic in fifty runes. In many of the metrical pieces there is the ring of real poetry.
Poems
in two Volumes
The two volumes of poetry here presented to the public embrace the bulk of literary poetic effort of the author from 1868, when the Price Poem, “William Tyndale”, was written, down to the “Red Sea” composed 1928. These collections with those comprised in other volumes containing prose and verse, possess a somewhat greater variety than the conventional flatulence, which is beginning to bring the modern bard into not quite undeserved discredit. Mr. Strickland is also very successful as a translator especially so in “Hanuman”, a mock-heroic poem by Svatopluk Čech, in which he has preserved the original metres and system of double-rhyming which distinguish the original work.
B. Westermann Co., Inc. / New York
