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AMERICAN MYSTICAL VERSE

AMERICAN MYSTICAL
VERSE AN ANTHOLOGY
SELECTED BY IRENE HUNTER
PREFACE By ZONA GALE. *

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FOLIA

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

NEW YORK

MCMXXVII

COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PREFACE

Some years ago Anna Hempstead Branch, Pauline F. J. Brower and another considered assembling a volume of American Mystical Verse. The book was to follow the principle of the Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse, that is, selection was to be made from among those poets alone whose expression touched toward that heightened perception, that enlargement of vision and level of being, which is so variously denominated. The death of Mrs. Brower prevented the carrying out of this project, which has now been so beautifully achieved by Irene Louise Hunter, who was a young poet and mystic of Riverside, California. Miss Hunter died on her birthday anniversary, July 1, 1924, on the day on which the letter was dated accepting for publication her collection.

The work was done over a period of two years, and chiefly from the bed to which a painful illness confined her. It was in a room looking toward Mount Rubidoux, the right setting for her rapt

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PS 595

124 H8. 1927

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