Anthology of Student Verse at Pennsylvania

by Leroy Smith, Jr. (Editor), Harold Saeger Stine (Editor), John Cooper Mendenhall (Editor)

Overview

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781512813760
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	01/29/1936
Series:	Anniversary Collection
Edition description:	Reprint 2016
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.25(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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Editors' Note

The verses in this little book, selected out of a large number submitted to the editors, were written within the past year or two by undergraduates, or, in a few cases, by recent graduates, of the University of Pennsylvania. None of them were composed with a view to inclusion in such an anthology. They represent, very fairly, what, without artificial stimulation, is being done in verse at Pennsylvania.

The idea of such an anthology was originally suggested at a meeting of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the College Poetry Society of America. It seemed more worth while to make it representative not of the standards reached by a select group only, but by the undergraduate body at large. Editors were chosen, contributions asked for, and here is the result. The editors consider it rather a promising beginning than a definitive end. They hope that from time to time more completely representative volumes of increasing power and appeal will be inspired by it.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Department of English at the Universityfor its cooperation, and particularly to Dr. Cornelius Weygandt, who, after reading the verses selected, consented to write a Preface. His long and fruitful labors, especially in the field of composition, have encouraged in successive generations of Pennsylvanians a keener observation, an increased appreciation of the things in life which are good, and a delight in individual expression within the limits of sound taste, which the editors themselves have experienced and which constitute a tradition which, they hope, is not too faintly reflected in this booklet.