Synopses & Reviews
Review
This is an impressive array of essays on a number of largely obscure topics related to modern American letters. The title piece is an interesting historical account of the consultantship in poetry at the Library of Congress.... There are also thoughtful essays on the American character, on the user-used relationship in modern society, and on recent erotic poetry.Library Journal
Table of Contents
The muse and the librarian.--Yankee Vergil--Robert Frost in Washington.--Your friend the poet--Carl Sandburg.--Proteus as Apollo: the poetry of Merrill Moore.--The poet as composer--Lee Anderson.--A letter to Ali Baba.--The heart of blackness: M. B. Tolson's poetry.--A literary enthusiasm; or, The user used.--Who do you think you are?--The taste of it: observations on current erotic poetry.