Smith, Maurine. Papers 1917-1919

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Smith, Maurine. Papers 1917-1919

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Maurine Smith was a member of the Poetry Club of the University of Chicago during the two years preceding her death on March 8, 1919, at the age of twenty-three. The collection comprises an autobiography written by Smith for the English Composition class of Professor James Root Hulbert, probably offered in 1918. In it she tells of her years of intense physical suffering, her devotion to nature, and her increasing interest in poetry. The bulk of the collection is made up of approximately two hundred typescript poems, a few of which were published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse and in The Keen Edge.

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Poetry: A Magazine of Verse was founded in 1912 by Chicago poet Harriet Monroe. Taking Whitman's line, "To have great poets there must be great audiences too" as her motto, Monroe sought to cultivate a wide readership for new writing and ideas. By insisting on paying all contributors and establishing an annual prize, Poetry magazine raised the visibility and status of poetry. The journal published and promoted the careers of a galaxy of poets who came to define twentieth century mod...

Smith, Marine

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Maurine Smith was a member of the Poetry Club of the University of Chicago during the two years preceding her death on March 8, 1919, at the age of twenty-three. Her association with the Poetry Club came at a most fortunate time, for among its members were Glenway Westcott, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Maurice Lesemann, and Yvor Winters. After her death in 1921 Westcott and Winters wrote the foreword to a volume of Smith's poems, "The Keen Edge." Yvor Winters says of Smith, "For me she is fixed in a...