Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1917 — Poets and Coffee. [ARTICLE]

Poets and Coffee.

Poets have neglected coffee; party because poets are greatly under the tah fluence of tradition, partly because coffee Is a hard word to And a rhyme for; one had hoped that vers llbros would give scope to coffee lovers. But the vers-llbrettlsti and vers-llbrettlstao (those gentlemen and ladles who write poetry for the eye and the ear ra Ar titan for the IntoUlganes) have been equally negligent. Phtioeophers dp not care for breakfast Kant took a pipe and a stroll for his morning meal, and if we were to inquire, into the haftts 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. Popo has a mere reference: ■hut eyes. But In Pope* day coffee was an aflbdr of afternoon and company did not appeal to romantic sentiments aa> breakfast coffee doesy—Henry Dwight Sedgwick In the Tale Bevlew.