Edison High School - Wizard Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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■XT HEN we consider the fact that England’s greatest ’ ’ lyric poets scarcely lived to manhood—that Thomas Chattcrton, “the marvelous hov,” died, a literary genius at sixteen, having planned the Rowley Papers at eleven—that Shelley reached immortality with “Alas tor'' at twenty-four—that Byron awoke one morning in his twenty-first year to find himself famous—that the immortal Milton astounded the world with his ode, On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity when he was but twenty-one—that John Keats, England’s greatest lyric poet, died at twenty-five—that Alexander Pope, a model of tiie classicists, wrote his Pastorals at sixteen—that William Cullen Bryant gave us Thanatopsis at seventeen—that Thomas Babington Macaulay, one of the most typical and distinctive characters of the nineteenth century, began to read at the age of three, at the age of five talked like a magpie, at eleven had written a universal history, several hymns, and an epic poem— that before she was twenty and while still a little tom boy” of the Maine coast, Edna St. Vincent Millay published “Renascence and Other Poems,” and the world recognized the fact that a new American poet was born— Tu'cniySix