“Poetry as a criticism of life equally does not and can not exist for the Indian, because poetry and life are not divided.”

Arguing for an understanding of art inseparable from lived experience · Essay, A Note on Primitive Poetry

• Art
• Poetry

“Indian symbolism, with the image as employed by the Indian, is to my mind the most fruitful and translatable contribution that Indian poetry can make to our own.”

Identifying concrete symbolism as a particularly powerful source of poetic exchange · Review, Tall Timber and a Loon

• Art
• Poetry

“If printed sources are not allowed, then all the old ballads collected in broadsides or chap-books must go.”

Showing how strict theories can exclude traditions they are intended to explain · Review, Who Writes Folk-songs?

• Memory
• Poetry