General William Booth Enters Into Heaven and Other Poems

This book contains among other verses: “On Reading Omar Khayyam during an Anti-Saloon Campaign in Illinois”; “The Wizard Wind”; “The Eagle Forgotten”, a Memorial to John P. Altgeld; “The Knight in Disguise”, a Memorial to O. Henry; “The Rose and the Lotus”; “Michaelangelo”; “Titian”; “What the Hyena Said”; “What Grandpa Mouse Said”; “A Net to Snare the Moonlight”; “Springfield Magical”; “The Proud Farmer”; “The Illinois Village”; “The Building of Springfield”.

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Comments on the Title Poem:

“This poem, at once so glorious, so touching and poignant in its conception and expression … is perhaps the most remarkable poem of a decade—one that defies imitation.”—‘Review of Reviews’.

“A sweeping and penetrating vision that works with a naive charm… No American poet of to-day is more a people’s poet.”—‘Boston Transcript’.

“One could hardly overpraise ‘General Booth’.”—‘New York Times’.

“Something new in verse, spontaneous, passionate, unmindful of conventions in form and theme.”—‘The Living Age’.