These memoirs of the distinguished
poet, Horace Gregory, are a fitting
crown to his poetic achievement. Six
volumes of verse, the best now in-
cluded in his Collected Poems; three
sensitive translations of Latin verse;
and many critical essays and reviews
have established Mr. Gregory as a
distinctive, elegiac poet whose "emo-
tional range is perhaps the most com-
prehensive among modern poets."
[Elizabeth Drew] In this autobiogra-
phy he taps the source of his keenly
ironic vision of the human predica-
ment--a spiritual journey that began
in his grandfather s house on Mil-
waukee s Jefferson Street and moved
eastward through the literary worlds
of Chicago, New York, London, and
onto his family s heritage in Ireland.
The odyssey reveals the individ-
ual s quest for identity, the exiled
artist seeking a homeland. The young
Horace, the frail middle child set apart
from the complacent bourgeois poli-
tics of Wisconsin, is fascinated by the
theater; attends the new poetry recit-
als of Frost, Sandburg, and Lindsay;
and meets Harriet Monroe who en-
courages his poetry. His move to New
York during Prohibition conjures up
the misery of that era, the uncertain-
ties of freelance writing, the passion
behind his first book of poems; then
follows marriage to the poet Marya
Zaturenska, a move toward Leftist
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