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New Repub. 23 ('20): 221; 25 ('21): 321.
New Statesman, 16 ('21): 729.
Outlook, 126 ('20): 729 (portrait).
Spec. 95 ('05): 119; 125 ('20): 239; 126 ('21): 19.
+Lew R. Sarett+--poet.
Born at Chicago, 1888. A.B., Beloit, 1911. Studied at Harvard, 1911-2; LL.B., University of Illinois, 1916. Woodsman and guide in the Northwest several months each year for nine years. Teacher of English and oratory.
Since 1920, a.s.sociate professor of oratory, Northwestern University.
Lecturer on the Canadian North and on Indian life. Sarett's _Many, Many Moons: A Book of Wilderness Poems_, 1920 (with an introduction by Carl Sandburg), is a reflection of his familiarity with Indian material.
Received the Levinson prize for his poem, "The Box of G.o.d," 1921.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Poetry, 17 ('20): 158.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1920.
+Clinton Scollard+--poet.
Born at Clinton, New York, 1860. A.B., Hamilton College, 1881. Studied at Harvard and at Cambridge, England. Professor of English literature, Hamilton College, 1888-96 and 1911--. Has published nearly forty volumes of graceful, accomplished verse. For bibliography, cf. _Who's Who in America_.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Rittenhouse.
Chaut. 35 ('02): 345.
Critic, 40 (02): 295 (portrait).
Lamp, 29 ('04): 451.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1915.
+(Mrs.) Evelyn Scott+--poet, novelist.
Mrs. Scott has lived many years in Brazil (cf. _Poetry_, 15 ['19]: 100).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Precipitations. 1920. (Poems.) The Narrow House. 1921. (Novel.)
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Cent 103 ('22): 520. (H.S. Canby.) Dial, 70 ('21): 591, 594.
Lond. Mercury, 5 ('22): 319.
New Repub. 28 ('21): 305. (Padraic Colum.) Poetry, 17 ('21): 334. (Lola Ridge.) See also _Book Review Digest_, 1920, 1921.
+Anne Douglas Sedgwick (Mrs. Basil de Selincourt)+--novelist.
Born at Englewood, New Jersey, 1873. Educated at home. Left America when nine years old and has since lived abroad, chiefly in Paris and London.
Studied painting for several years in Paris. Her reputation was made by _Tante_, 1911. Her latest book is _Adrienne Toner_, 1922. For bibliography, see _Who's Who in America_.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Sedgwick, H.D., The New American Type and Other Essays. 1908.
Ath. 1911, 2: 553.
Atlan. 109 ('12): 682.
Bookm. 34 ('12): 655.
Dial, 52 ('12): 323.
Ind. 72 ('12): 678.
Lond. Mercury, 5 ('22): 431.
Lond. Times, May 13, 1920: 301.
Nation, 94 ('12): 262.
New Statesman, 15 ('20): 137 (Rebecca West); 18 ('21): 200 (Rebecca West).
+Alan Seeger+--poet.
Born in New York City, 1888. In his boyhood lived in Mexico, and later in Paris and London. Entered Harvard, 1906. In 1913, went to Paris. In the first weeks of the War, enlisted in the Foreign Legion of France and was in action almost continually. Killed July 4, 1916.
He won fame with his poem, "I Have a Rendezvous with Death."
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Poems. 1916. (Introduction by William Archer.) Letters and Diary. 1917.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 47 ('18): 399, 585.
Eng. R. 27 ('18): 199.
Lit. Digest, 53 ('16): 1190; 55 ('17): Oct. 27, p. 24 (portrait).
Liv. Age, 294 ('17): 221.
Lond. Times, June 29, 1917: 307; Dec. 14, 1917: 612.
New Repub. 10 ('17): 160.
New Statesman, 9 ('17): 356.
Poetry, 10 ('17): 38.
R. of Rs. 55 ('17): 208 (portrait).
