II.


American poems in this volume by the authors whose names are given
below are the copyrighted property of the authors, or of their
representatives named in parenthesis, and may not be reprinted without
their permission, which for the present work has been courteously
granted.

PUBLISHERS OF THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY. 1904.

_A. Coles_ (A. Coles, Jr., M.D.); _J.A. Dix_ (Rev. Morgan Dix, D.D.);
_P.L. Dunbar; W.C. Gannett; W. Gladden; S.P. McL. Pratt; O. Huckel;
Ray Palmer_ (Dr. Charles R. Palmer); _A.D.F. Randolph_ (Arthur D.F.
Randolph).




RELIGION AND POETRY

BY WASHINGTON GLADDEN.


The time is not long past when the copulative in that title might have
suggested to some minds an antithesis,--as acid and alkali, or heat
and cold. That religion could have affiliation with anything
so worldly as poetry would have seemed to some pious people a