Yale Verse [1898-1908]

xii, 191 pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles. An interesting collection of first appearances: this volume represents the first book appearance of Sinclair Lewis (his contributions Behind the Arras, Exit Homo, Father Kileen, Odysseus at Ogygia, Puck, to Queen Mab, Saint Hubert, and When Viziers Speak are credited in the contents to H.S. Lewis because his real name first name was Harry), and the first appearances in print of Leonard Bacon and William Rose Benet. It was also the first published work of Robert Moses, then editor of the Yale Courant, who went on to become an extremely influential urban planner with a focus on public works. He is the subject of Robert Caro's Pulitzer Prize winning biography The Power Broker. This is the third volume collecting verse by Yale students (the others were released in 1889 and 1899).