Autumn Leaves from England
Mosella of Ausonius, And all six numbers may be had, postpaid, by sending fifty cents to the London Egoist!
Another set of six leaflets, which began in October, is announced by D. H. Lawrence as "a small fortnightly journal called The Signature," the subscription for the six being three shillings, or seventy-five cents, to be sent to 12 Fisher Street, Southampton Row, London W. C. Mr. Lawrence writes: "Will you take it, and get one or two friends to take it?—not for the money's sake, bur for the spirit which is struggling in it." And he adds: "How is poetry going in America? There is none in England: the muse has gone, like the swallows in winter. This is the real winter of the spirit in England—we are just preparing to come to fast grips with the war."
A third set of leaflets is Loose Leaves, in which Edward Storer issues his verse and prose from time to time. No. I is a series of delicate prose poems, The Country Walk; No. II is a brief suggestive essay on The Case of the Modern Artist, which we may return to later; and No. III is Helen, the one-act play, or rather, dramatic essay in poetic prose, which was first printed in Poetry and Drama. Helen bears, perhaps, the same relation to drama which posturing bears to the dance; in it Paris, Helen and Menelaus pass slowly, statelily, across the stage, uttering the rich speech of a modern poet who has thought out their destiny for them.
The first series of eight numbers may be had for seventy-five cents from the author at 12 Harper Street, London, W. C.
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