Poetry and Archaeology

Authors

Robert Shafer

Date of this Version

1914

Comments

Published in THE MID-WEST QUARTERLY Vol. 1, No. 4 (July 1914).

Abstract

Undoubtedly archaeology is a strange word for anyone to be using in connection with the poetry of men like Mr. Masefield or Mr. Gibson; and probably it were well to explain immediately what I mean in using it. Unless I am much mistaken, both archaeology, in the ordinary sense of the word, and naturalism were born of that prolific mother of strange children, the Romantic Movement. And more than this, besides having the same mother the two are so remarkably alike as to make me suspect that they must be twins.