Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1917 — Poets and Coffee. [ARTICLE]

Poets and Coffee.

Poets have neglected coffee; partly because poets are greatly under the Influence of tradition, partly because coffee Is a hard word to find a rhyme for; one had hoped that vers Libres would give scope to coffee lovers. But the vers-llbrettlstl and vers-llbrettlstae (those gentlemen and ladles who write poetry for the eye and the ear rather than for the intelligence) have been equally negligent. Philosophers do not care for breakfast. Kant took a pipe and a stroll for his morning meal, and If we were to Inquire Into the hamts of the extremely modern poets we should be likely to find that they are equally reckless of breakfast. I suspect them of gruel—or mutton broth. To return, as I have said, no poet has celebrated coffee. Shakespeare came too soon. Pope has a mere reference : Coffee, which makes the politician wise. And see through all things with his hairshut eyes. But in Pope’s day coffee was an affair of afternoon and company did not appeal to romantic sentiments as breakfast coffee does. —Henry Dwight Sedgwick in the Tale Review.