Nonfiction by George Sterling
“Sag Harbor, my place of birth, was and is a town of less than five thousand inhabitants, and lies on Shelter Island Sound, a hundred...”
Rhymes and Reactions (Nov 1925)
“I am wondering how many of our readers have seen "Tamar," that terrific poem by Robinson Jeffers, given long reviews by James Rorty in the...”
Rhymes and Reactions (Nov 1926)
“I have just read that book of short stories (some of them admirable) by Barry Benefield, called "Short Turns." It contains the tale "Daughters of...”
Rhymes and Reactions (Aug 1926)
“Jack London did not keep a diary but the nearest approach to one is this article which is offered for publication for the first time...”
Rhymes and Reactions (Jul 1926)
“What a race of ailing wretches we are! Is one in a hundred of us physically perfect—or even in absolute health. Note our crowded hospitals...”
Rhymes and Reactions (Jun 1926)
“I have just been reading, in his book entitled "Forty Immortals," the poems of that flaming soul, Benjamin De Casseres. I say "poems" deliberately, for if...”
Rhymes and Reactions (May 1926)
“It is with great pleasure that I avail myself of the privilege of re-printing the exquisite lyric that follows, surely one of the finest in...”
Rhymes and Reactions (Mar 1926)
“The Cosmopolitan Book Corporation otters a prize (a trip to Hollywood) for the best review of Adela Rogers St. Johns' novel, "The Skyrocket." The Cosmopolitan Book...”
Rhymes and Reactions (Dec 1925)
“I have just read a most depressing book, the biography of Edgar Saltus, by his widow, Marie Saltus. It is a ghastly, if naive, description...”
Rhymes and Reactions (Jan 1927)
“I have been reading in that otherwise excellent magazine The American Parade. Dr. Danziger's article on Bierce. For some reason unknown to me Danziger has...”
Rhymes and Reactions (Dec 1926)
“The Bobbs-Merrill Company sends me Prof. John Erskine's book "Gallahad," apparently with the object of soliciting a favorable opinion of it. I have an opinion,...”
“I am, naturally, interested in the news of the rejuvenation of the "Overland," and wish you all success with it. . The effort to restore...”
Introduction to "In the Midst of Life"
“I regret that I may not use the forbidden metaphor, "a star rising in the West." None other would so well express the gathering light and slow inevitability...”
Poetry of the Pacific Coast-California
“A younger and immensely imaginative singer is Clark Ashton Smith, the story of whose triumph with his neighbors, when hundreds of copies of his first book...”
Recent Books of Fact and Fiction
“As a boy of sixteen or thereabouts, Clark Ashton Smith was discovered as "the Keats of the Pacific Coast," and duly proclaimed as such by all...”
Preface to "Ebony and Crystal"
“Who of us care to be present at the accouchement of the immortal? I believe that we so attend who are first to take this book...”
“"The tendency of modern poetry" is against it, and the gaunt Muse of these lonesome latter years stammers with a greater facility than marks her singing....”