LOUIS UNTERMEYER - POEM SIGNED - HFSID 206134

LOUIS UNTERMEYER
Louis Untermeyer signs his poem Scarcely Spring.
Printed Poem signed: "Louis Untermeyer", 1p 5½x8¼. Scarcely Spring. In full: "Nothing is real. The world has lost its/edges;/The sky, uncovered, is the one thing clear./The earth is little more than atmosphere/Where yesterday were rocks and naked ridges./Nothing is fixed. Tentative rain dislodges/Green upon green or lifts a coral spear/That breaks in blossom, and the hills/appear/Too frail to be the stony fruit of ages./Nothing will keep. Even the heavens/waver/Young larks, whose first thought is to cry/ aloud,/Have spent their bubble notes. And here/or there/A few slow-hearted boys and girls discover/A moon as unsubstantial as a cloud/Painted by air on washed and watery air./--Louis Untermeyer" Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977, born in New York City) was an American author, poet and editor. He was the author or editor of over 100 books, co-founded the poetry magazine The Seven Arts and helped to establish the reputations of poets like Amy Lowell and Robert Frost; many of the anthologies and poetry collections that he edited wound up in American schools as textbooks. Untermeyer also wrote over a thousand poems and published a collection of his own poetry, including 1928's Burning Bush, and served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1961 to 1963. Untermeyer reportedly held Marxist beliefs for part of his life and wrote for socialist magazines and was eventually blacklisted in the 1950s. Fold creases through signature. Slightly creased at corners. Otherwise, fine condition.