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“Prose syntax" and "natural speech" are good—and many of us, remembering Wordsworth, have never forgotten to use them.”

Arguing that natural speech can belong within serious poetry · Preface, Trails Sunward (1917)

About Cale Young Rice

Cale Young Rice

7 December 1872–24 January 1943

Cale Young Rice was born on 7 December 1872 in Dixon, Kentucky, and died on 24 January 1943 in Louisville, Kentucky. During his lifetime he was a conspicuous, if never wholly central, figure in American letters: a poet of formal accomplishment, a playwright attracted to historical spectacle and moral conflict, a…

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