ABSTRACT

“ Poetry and Drama ” is a notable newcomer among the quarterly reviews. Though the bulk of the magazine is to be devoted to criticism, a number of pages in each number are to be given up to the publication of new verse. It is not necessarily any disparagement of the prose articles (though some of them have rather an undergraduate swagger about them !) to say that the creative work is more interesting than the critical. Lascelles Abercrombie’s verse is always arresting ; and his short play “ The Adder,” which was recently produced at the Liverpool Literary Theatre is, in some respects, the most challenging thing he has done. The editor of “ Poetry and Drama ” is fortunate in having secured so distinguished a contribution to his first number. Among the prose-articles, perhaps the most interesting are Edward Thomas’s mock eulogy of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and Henry Newbolt’s gallant and discriminating appreciation of “ Georgian Poetry, 1911-12.” Poems by James Elroy Flecker, Maurice Hewlett and Michael Mecredy, and critical papers by Rupert Brooke, Harold Mcnro, Algar Thorold, A. Romney Green, Leonard Inkster, J. Rodker, Gilbert Cannan, Richard Buxton and F. S. Flint go to make up what must be considered a promising first number.