Note 12 — CONCERNING THE LACK OF AN AMERICAN LITERATURE

According to an eminent French critic, M. de Wyzewa, the United States still has (since Whitman’s death, he means to say) two poets,—Mr. Merril and Mr. Griffin. “Only two” is the critic’s phrase, but the adverb need not disturb us. A busy people who have two poets at once may count themselves rich.