Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1901 — Sailor Poets Wanted. [ARTICLE]

Sailor Poets Wanted.

An English literary writer says that “the time Is fully ripe for the advent of a sailor poet and the marine engineer poet “Whether they write In terms of rhyme or no I care not A virgin field awaits them, a noble inheritance, maturing for ages. They can, if they come, utterly refute the false and foolish prattle of the armchair philosophers and prove triumphantly that so far from the romance and poetry of the sea being dead It has hardly yet been given any adequate expression whatever.”