G.O.M.

Abstract

The name of Archer M. Huntington has often sounded in these pages, most recently with Professor Ada M. Coe's article (Vol. XXVII, no. 107) on his greatest monument, the Hispanic Society of America, and with the late Professor Peer's review (Vol. XXX, no. 117) of the impressive Homenaje planned in celebration of his eightieth birthday. Professor Coe mentioned, what not all may have known, that Mr. Huntington was not only “traveller, archaeologist, collector, research scholar, translator, editor” but also poet, his first volume of verse dating back to 1928 and his penultimate to 1949. The poet in him is therefore of age, and it was a happy thought that led him to respond to the tributes of friends and well-wishers everywhere by making available now, in a volume that is a noble piece of bookmaking, his own collective tribute to the sense of beauty and wonder that is part of all true imaginative scholarship. Bibliographer and critic may lament the lack of “apparatus”: no clue is given to the completeness of “collected”, to the relationship of this to the earlier volumes, or to chronology. Others will accept these 236 poems, ordered apparently at random and showing a wealth of lyric forms, as the considered corpus of what the author would most wish to preserve, and be grateful.

BSS Subject Index:

• HUNTINGTON, ARCHER M. (1870–1955)
• HUNTINGTON, ARCHER M. (1870–1955)

Notes

¹ Collected Verse. By Archer M. Huntington. New York [Hispanic Society of America], 1953. Pp. 424. $6.00.