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   >>>>>> early collections (The Cry of Youth and The Passing God) are "full of   
   >>>>>> every   
   >>>>>> kind of poetry except the kind one might imagine Kemp would write.   
   >>>>>> Instead   
   >>>>>> of crude and boisterous verse, here is precise and over-polished   
   >>>>>> poetry."   
   >>>>>> Untermeyer's opinion was that Chanteys and Ballads is "riper," with "the   
   >>>>>> sense of personality more pronounced.">>>>> American Poetry, Fourth Revised Edition, New York, Harcourt, Brace and   
   >>>>>> Co.,   
   >>>>>> 1930; p. 376. Print.   
   >   
   >>>>>> Recognition   
   >>>>>> Kemp's reputation had declined into obscurity by the time of his death   
   >>>>>> in   
   >>>>>> 1960; but his role in the history of modern American literature and the   
   >>>>>> American Left has brought renewed interest and further publication of   
   >>>>>> his   
   >>>>>> work.   
   >   
   >>>>>> There is a street named for him, Harry Kemp Way, in Provincetown.   
   >   
   >>>>>> In 1995, the Provincetown Chamber of Commerce made plans to create a   
   >>>>>> First   
   >>>>>> Landing Park to commemorate the Pilgrims' voyage in 1620. Ms. Ruth   
   >>>>>> Hiebert   
   >>>>>> made a donation in the name of her late father, Dr. Daniel Hieber, who,   
   >>>>>> along with Harry Kemp, the celebrated "Tramp Poet" of the 1920s literary   
   >>>>>> world who abandoned Greenwich Village for life in a Provincetown dune   
   >>>>>> shack,   
   >>>>>> would reenact the first landing every year, complete with dubious   
   >>>>>> costumes   
   >>>>>> Kemp imagined the intrepid voyagers might have worn."It was all somewhat   
   >>>>>> silly, but it did keep the true history alive," Ms. Hiebert told the   
   >>>>>> Globe.   
   >   
   >>>>>> Publications   
   >>>>>> The Cry of Youth. New York: Kennerley, 1914.   
   >>>>>> The Thresher's Wife. New York: A. & C. Boni, 1914.   
   >>>>>> The Passing God: Songs for lovers (with introduction by Richard Le   
   >>>>>> Gallienne). New York: Brentano's, 1919; London: Brentano's, 1922.   
   >>>>>> Chanteys and Ballads: Sea-chanteys, tramp-ballads, and other ballads and   
   >>>>>> poems. New York: Brentano's, 1920.   
   >>>>>> The Sea and the Dunes, and other poems. New York: Brentano's, 1926.   
   >>>>>> Don Juan's Note-Book. New York: privately published; printed by Alex L.   
   >>>>>> Hillman, 1929.   
   >>>>>> Where Now Green Gardens? Harry answers Omar. Provincetown, MA:   
   >>>>>> Provincetown   
   >>>>>> Publishers, 1945.   
   >>>>>> The Poet's Life of Christ: Songs of the living Lord. Provincetown, MA:   
   >>>>>> Provincetown Publishers, 1946.   
   >>>>>> Provincetown Tideways (1948)   
   >>>>>> Poet of the Dunes: Songs of the dunes and the outer shore, with others   
   >>>>>> in   
   >>>>>> varying modes and moods. Provincetown, MA: Provincetown Publishers,   
   >>>>>> 1952;   
   >>>>>> Provincetown, MA: Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association, 1988.   
   >>>>>> Rhyme of Provincetown Nicknames. Providence, MA: Providence Publishers,   
   >>>>>> 1954.   
   >   
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   >   
   >>>>> A great poet of olden times...   
   >   
   >>>> Actually, Harry Kemp is considered one of the first "Modern poets".   
   >   
   >>> I know that Kemp was a very popular poet who later faded to obscurity.   
   >   
   >> As so many have, before and after.   
   >   
   > Indeed so......   
      
   Excellent.   
      
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