The “Younger Poets,” as we should describe those who appear in this issue within the poetry section of that title, are the ones who have not yet published whole books of verse. It feels to us about as exhilarating to show the selected work of younger poets in some bulk as it is to publish the more occasional poems of writers of established reputation. They, or some of them, are the poets who will be with us tomorrow.
A poet whose manuscripts come to an editor without the benefit of the established reputation needs to offer some memorable freshness or brilliance; especially if he is to offset what is likely to be an incompleteness or immaturity in technical proficiency. But to prove that this condition is commonly met, nine younger poets are in this issue; and if our readers like them as we do, we shall hope to make up this section again, and from time to time.
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