Poetry
- Poetry
Footnotes
1. A limited edition appeared before the end of 1940 in which the last fifty lines were expaided to about seventy-five, and what is here described as the conclusion (the passage beginning “Three hundred years have gone but the voice that led”) was clearly divided from the rest of the poem and entitled “The Martyrs’ Shrine.” The conclusion in its new and expanded form has greater intensity of emotion, partly because it more strictly contemplates the heroic past as the antecedent of the present. The Macmillan Company have presented the poem, in the limited edition, in a format of striking excellence.
2. Another narrative, quite worthy of those in his volume, is A Western Idyll, which Mr Kirkconnell issued separately in the Christmas season.
