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diff --git a/36636.txt b/36636.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d2282c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/36636.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1623 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Night in Avignon, by Cale Young Rice + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A Night in Avignon + +Author: Cale Young Rice + +Release Date: July 5, 2011 [EBook #36636] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A NIGHT IN AVIGNON *** + + + + +Produced by David Garcia, David E. Brown and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Kentuckiana Digital Library) + + + + + + + + + +A NIGHT IN AVIGNON + + + + + A NIGHT IN AVIGNON + + BY + CALE YOUNG RICE + + Author of "Charles Di Tocca," "David," + "Plays and Lyrics," etc. + + NEW YORK + DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY + MCMXIII + + + _Copyright, 1907, by_ + CALE YOUNG RICE + + Published, March, 1907 + + + + + TO + DONALD ROBERTSON + + + + +A NIGHT IN AVIGNON + + + + +CHARACTERS + + + FRANCESCO PETRARCA _A Young Poet and Scholar_ + + GHERARDO _His Brother, a Monk_ + + LELLO _His Friend_ + + ORSO _His Servant_ + + FILIPPA } + } _Ladies of light life in Avignon_ + SANCIA } + + MADONNA LAURA + + + + +A NIGHT IN AVIGNON + +SCENE: _A room in the chambers of PETRARCA at Avignon. It opens on a +loggia overlooking, on higher ground, the spired church of Santa Clara +and the gray cloisters of a Carthusian monastery. Beyond lie the city +walls under glamour of the blue Provencal night._ + +_The room, faintly frescoed, is lighted with many candles; some +glittering on a wine-table heavy with wines toward the right front. A +door on the left leads to other rooms, and an arrased one opposite, +down to the street. Bookshelves and a writing-desk strewn with a lute +and writings are also on the left; a crimson couch is in the centre; and +garlands of myrtle and laurel deck the wine-table._ + +_GHERARDO, the monk, is seated by the desk, following with severe looks +the steps of PETRARCA, who is walking feverishly to and fro._ + + +_Gherardo_ (_after a pause_). Listen. Another word, Francesco. + +_Petrarca._ Aih! + And then another--that will breed another. + +_Gherardo._ Dote on this Laura still--if still you must: + Woman's your destiny. + But quench these lights and set away that wine. + +_Petrarca._ And to no other lips turn? hers denied me? + Never, Gherardo! + +_Gherardo._ Virtue bids you. + +_Petrarca._ Vainly! + I've borne until I will not ... For it is + Two years now since in the aisles + Of Santa Clara yonder my heart first + Went from me on mad wings. + Two years this April morning + Since it fell fluttering before her feet ... + As she stood there beside our blessed Lady, + Gowned as young Spring in green and violets!... + +_Gherardo._ And these two years have been inviolate; + Your life as pure as hers, + As virgin-- + Save for the songs you've sung to her; those songs + This idle city echoes with. But now---- + +_Petrarca._ Now I will open all the gates to Pleasure! + To rosy Pleasure--warm, unspiritual, + Ready to spring + Into the arms of all + Whom bloodless Virtue pales. + For, of restraint and hoping, I have drunk + But a vintage of tears! + And what has been my gain? + +_Gherardo._ Her chastity. + +_Petrarca._ A chastity unchallenged of desire-- + And therefore none! + Aih, none! + For, were it other; + Could I aver that once, that ever once + Her lids had fallen low in fear of love, + I'd bid the desert of my heart burn dry-- + To the last oasis-- + With resignation! + But never have they, never! and I'm mad. + + (_Pours out wine._) + +_Gherardo._ And you will seek to cure it with more madness? + To cast the devil of love out of your veins + With other love and lower! + +_Petrarca._ Yes, yes, yes! (_drinks._) + With little Sancia's! + Whose soul is a sweet sin! + Who lives but for this life and asks of Death + Only a breath of time before he ends it, + To tell three beads and fill her mouth with _aves_. + Just for enough, she says, + "To tell God that He made me"--as He did. + +_Gherardo._ And to blaspheme with! O obsessed man. + + (_Has risen, flushed._) + + But you will fail! For this vain revelry + Will ease not. And I see all love is base-- + As say the Fathers-- + All!... and the body of woman + Is vile from the beginning. + +_Petrarca._ Monkish lies! + + (_Drinks again for courage._) + + The body of woman's born of bliss and beauty. + Only one thing is fairer--that's her soul. + +_Gherardo._ And is that Word which says thou shalt not look + Upon another's wife a monkish lie? + + (_Silence._) + + Your Laura is another's. + +_Petrarca_ (_torn_). As I found! + After my heart became a poison flame-- + Within me! + A fierce inquisitor against my peace! + After I followed her from Santa Clara, + That mass-hour, + To an escutcheoned door! + After and not before ... And such another's! + Ugo di Sade's! + A beast whose sullen mind two thoughts would drain; + Whose breath is a poltroon's; + Who is unkind.... I've seen her weep; who loves + Her not.... And yet the fane of song I frame her, + The love I burn on it, she laughs away. + To hide her own?... I will not so believe. + +_Gherardo._ Nor should you. + +_Petrarca._ Yet you bid me quarry still + The deeps of me to shrine her? + And be Avignon's laughter? + A mock, a titter on the tongue of geese + That gad the city gates? + A type of fools that sigh while others kiss? + "Francesco Petrarca! + Who never clasped his mistress--but in a sonnet! + Who fills empty canzone with his passion-- + But never her ears! + Never!--though she was wed against her will + To an unlettered boor out bartering-- + One whom she well could leave!"... + I'll not, Gherardo!... Sonnets? + + (_Tears several from desk._) + + Vain, all!... + + (_Casts them away._) + + But Lello comes! and brings me Sancia! + Filippa! merry Filippa and Sancia! + We'll drink!--wine of Rocella! + Wine of the Rhine! Bielna! San Porciano!-- + And kiss! + + (_Throws back his head._) + + Kiss with the lips of life and not of ... + + (_A knell has begun to beat from the church without. He hears it, + and, awed, sinks, crossing himself, to the couch._) + + (_GHERARDO, exalted, shudders._) + +_Gherardo._ It is the knell of Matteo Banista, + Whose soul is gone for its licentious days + Upon steep purgatory. + + (_Prepares to go._) + + Your sin be on you ... and it will. + +_Petrarca_ (_fearful_). No!... no! + + (_Starts up._) + + But hear, Gherardo, hear! + + (_His words come stifled._) + + There in the cloister have you peace--in prayer? + In visions--penances?... + Swear that you have! swear to me! once!... but once! + And I...! ... + No, never!... never! + + (_He wipes his brow._) + + While we are in the world the world's in us. + The Holy Church I own-- + Confess her Heaven's queen; + But we are flesh and all things that are fair + God made us to enjoy-- + Or, high in Paradise, we'll know but sorrow. + You though would ban earth's beauty, + Even the torch of Glory + That kindled Italy once and led great Greece-- + The torch of Plato, Homer, Virgil, all + The sacred bards and sages, pagan-born! + I love them! they are divine! + And so to-night...! ... + + (_Voices._) + + They! it is Lello! Lello! Sancia!---- + + (_Hears a lute and laughter below, then a call, "Sing, Sancia"; + then SANCIA singing:_) + + To the maids of Saint Remy + All the gallants go for pleasure; + To the maids of Saint Remy-- + Tripping to love's measure! + To the dames of Avignon + All the masters go for wiving; + To the dames of Avignon-- + That shall be their shriving! + + (_He goes to the Loggia as they gayly applaud. Then LELLO cries:_) + +_Lello._ Ho-ho! Petrarca! Pagan! are you in? + What! are you sonnet-monger? + +_Petrarca._ Ai, ai, aih! + + (_Motions GHERARDO--who goes._) + +_Lello._ Come then! Your door is locked! down! let us in! + + (_Rattles it._) + +_Petrarca._ No, ribald! hold! the key is on the sill! + Look for it and ascend! + + (_ORSO enters._) + + Stay, here is Orso! + + (_The old servant goes through and down the stairs to meet them. In + a moment the tramp of feet is heard and they enter--LELLO between + them--singing:_) + + Guelph! Guelph! and Ghibbeline! + Ehyo! ninni! onni! [=o]nz! + I went fishing on All Saints' Day + And--caught but human bones! + + I went fishing on All Saints' Day. + The Rhone ran swift, the wind blew black! + I went fishing on All Saints' Day-- + But my love called me back! + + She called me back and she kissed my lips-- + Oh, my lips! Oh, onni! [=o]nz! + "Better take life than death," said she, + Better take love than--bones! bones! + + (_SANCIA kisses PETRARCA._) + + "Better take love than bones." + + (_They scatter with glee and PETRARCA seizes SANCIA to him._) + +_Petrarca._ Yes, little Sancia! and you, my friends! + Warm love is better, better! + And braver! Come, Lello! give me your hand! + And you, Filippa! No, I'll have your lips! + +_Sancia_ (_interposing_). Or--less? One at a time, Messer Petrarca! + You learn too fast. Mine only for to-night. + +_Petrarca._ And for a thousand nights, Sancia fair! + +_Sancia._ You hear him? Santa Madonna! pour us wine, + To pledge him in! + +_Petrarca._ The tankards bubble o'er! + + (_They go to the table._) + + And see, they are wreathed of April, + With loving myrtle and laurel intertwined. + We'll hold symposium, as bacchanals! + +_Sancia._ And that is--what? some dull and silly show + Out of your sallow books? + +_Petrarca._ Those books were writ + With ink of the gods, my Sancia, upon + Papyri of the stars! + +_Sancia._ And--long ago? + Ha! long ago? + +_Petrarca._ Returnless centuries! + +_Sancia_ (_contemptuously_). Who loves the past, loves mummies and + their dust-- + And he will mould! + Who loves the future loves what may not be, + And feeds on fear. + Only one flower has Time--its name is Now! + Come, pluck it! pluck it! + +_Lello._ _Brava_, maid! the Now! + +_Sancia_ (_dancing_). Come, pluck it! pluck it! + +_Petrarca._ By my soul, I will! + + (_Seizes her again._) + + It grows upon these lips--and if to-night + They leant out over the brink of Hell, I would. + + (_She breaks from him._) + +_Filippa._ Enough! the wine! the wine! + +_Sancia._ O ever-thirsty + And ever-thrifty Pippa! Well, pour out! + + (_She lifts a brimming cup._) + + We'll drink to Messer Petrarca-- + Who's weary of his bed-mate, Solitude. + May he long revel in the courts of Venus! + +_All_ (_drinking_). Aih, long! + +_Petrarca._ As long as Sancia enchants them! + +_Filippa._ I'd trust him not, Sancia. Put him to oath. + +_Sancia._ And, to the rack, if faithless? This Filippa! + Messer Petrarca, should she not be made + High Jurisconsult to our lord, the Devil, + Whose breath of life is oaths?... + But, swear it! ... by the Saints! + Who were great sinners all! + And by the bones of every monk or nun + Who ever darkened the world! + +_Lello._ Or ever shall! + + (_A pause._) + +_Petrarca._ I'll swear your eyes are singing + Under the shadow of your hair, mad Sancia, + Like nightingales in the wood. + +_Sancia._ Pah! Messer Poet ... + Such words as those you vent without an end-- + To the Lady Laura! + +_Petrarca._ Stop! + + (_Grows pale._) + + Not _her_ name--here! + + (_All have sat down; he rises._) + +_Sancia._ O-ho! this air will soil it? and it might + Not sound so sweet in sonnets ever after? + + (_To the rest--rising:_) + + Shall we depart, that he may still indite them? + "To Laura--On the Vanity of Passion"? + "To Laura--Unrelenting"? + "To Laura--Whose Departing Darkens the Sky"? + + (_Laughs._) + + "To Laura--Who Deigns Not a Single Tear"? + + (_ORSO enters._) + + Shall we depart? + +_Lello._ Peace! Sancia. + +_Sancia._ Ah-ha! + + (_Moves away._) + +_Petrarca_ (_still tensely--to ORSO_). Speak. + +_Orso._ Sir, you are desired. + +_Petrarca._ By whom? + +_Orso._ Her veil + Was lifted and she told me: + Therefore I say it out--Madonna Laura. + + (_All stare, amazed. Silence._) + +_Petrarca_ (_hoarsely_). What lie is this! + +_Orso._ I am too old to lie. + +_Sancia_ (_laughing_). Who was the goddess that his books tell of, + The cold one so long chaste, but who at last---- + +_Lello._ Be silent, Sancia! Francesco ... what? + +_Petrarca_ (_to ORSO_). Lead Monna Laura here-- + + (_ORSO goes._) + + If it is she!... + But you, my friends, must know how strange this is, + And how--!... I have no words!... + Wait me, I pray you, yonder, in that chamber. + + (_They go, left, SANCIA shrugging. Then ORSO brings LAURA, whom + PETRARCA is helpless to greet, and who falters--yet nobly + determining, comes down._) + +_Laura._ Messer Petrarca, ... I have been impelled + To come ... and as the purest should, boldly, + With lifted veil, to say ... + +_Petrarca._ Lady! + +_Laura._ To say-- + (Of gratitude I cannot give another ... + For life to a woman is but resignation, + And that at last is shame) ... + +_Petrarca._ At last ... shame---- + +_Laura._ To say--Love is to us as light to the lilies + That lean by Mont Ventoux. + The love of one pure man for one pure woman. + +_Petrarca_ (_dazed_). Lady!... + +_Laura._ Yes, and--I've been unkind to you. + Ungentle ever. + + (_Shakes her head._) + + But there's no other way sometimes for those + Who would be wholly true. + And yet ... do I owe _any_ truth to _him_? + +_Petrarca._ To--Ugo di Sade? + +_Laura_ (_bitterly_). Who is called my husband? + How I was bound to him, you know! and how + I've dwelt and have endured more than his bursts + Of burning cruelty. For still, I thought, + He is my husband! + And still--He is my husband!... + But now no more I think it--oh! no more! + Too visible it is + That he belongs to any--who sell love. + So I may innocently say to you + Who for two years have sung my name + Yet never once have turned unto another-- + + (_PETRARCA pales._) + + I well may say ... + + (_Stopped by his manner._) + + There's something that you ... Ah! + + (_Sees, stricken, his grief and shame. Then her glance goes round + the room and falls on the wine-table ... Then SANCIA is heard + within:_) + +_Sancia._ Well, well, Messer Petrarca! How long will + You shut us in this dark--that is as black + As old Pope John the twenty-second's soul? + A pretty festa, this! + +_Petrarca_ (_brokenly_). Merciless God! + + (_Falls abased before LAURA'S look, tortured with remorse._) + + O lady, what have I done beyond repair!... + + (_She gathers her veil._) + + What have I lost within this gulf of shame! + For a paltry pleasure have I sold my dream, + Whose pinions would have lifted you at last? + +_Laura_ (_very pale_). I did not know, Messer Petrarca, you + Had friends awaiting. + + (_Pauses numbly._) + + I came to-night, as first I would have said, + With holy gratitude-- + For a love I thought you gave. + With gratitude that honor well could speak, + I thought, and yet be honor; + With gratitude forgetful of all else ... + And trusting ... But no matter: + All trust shall be embalmed and laid away. + I go with pity; seeing + My husband--is even as other men. + + (_She passes to the door and out: PETRARCA moans. Then LELLO enters + and comes to him anxiously._) + +_Lello._ Francesco! + +_Petrarca._ Lello! + + (_Dazed._) + + Lello! Have I dreamed? + + (_Rising, with anguish._) + + Did Laura come to me out of the night-- + Come as the first voice breaking beyond death + To one despairing? + And was I lifted up to Heaven's dawn? + And then ... + + (_Reels._) + + God! am I falling...? shall I ever...? + Down this...? ... My friend stay with me! + No, go ... and take them with you--Sancia--all!... + I have slain the Spring forever! + The green of the whole fair world!... O Laura! Laura! + + (_Sinks down on the couch and buries his face in his arms. LELLO + goes sorrowfully out._) + + +THE END. + + + + +[Illustration] + +THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS +GARDEN CITY, N. Y. + + + + + PORZIA + + By + + CALE YOUNG RICE + + + "It presents a last phase of the Renaissance with great effect." _Sir + Sidney Lee._ + + "'Porzia' is a very romantic and beautiful thing. After a third reading + I enjoy and admire it still more." _Gilbert Murray._ + + "There are certain lyrical qualities in the dramas of Cale Young Rice + and certain dramatic qualities in many of his finest lyrics that make it + very difficult for the critic to resolve whether he is highest as singer + or dramatist. 'Porzia' is a poetic play in which these two gifts blend + with subtle and powerful effectiveness. It is not written in stereotyped + heroic verse, but in sensitive metrical lines that vary in beat and + measure with the strength, the tenderness, the anguish, bitterness and + passion of love or hate they have to express. The bizarre and poignant + central incident on which the action of 'Porzia' turns is such as would + have appealed irresistibly to the imagination and dramatic instincts of + the great Elizabethan dramatists, and Mr. Rice has developed it with a + force and imaginative beauty that they alone could have equaled and with + a restraint and delicacy of touch which makes pitiful and beautiful a + story they would have clothed in horror.... He turns what might have + been a tragic close to something that is loftier and more moving.... It + matters little that we hesitate between ranking Mr. Rice highest as + dramatist or lyrist; what matters is that he has the faculty divine + beyond any living poet of America; his inspiration is true, and his + poetry is the real thing." _The London Bookman._ + + "'Porzia' has the swift human movement which Mr. Rice puts into his + dramas, and technique of a very high order.... The dramatic form is the + most difficult to sustain harmoniously and this Mr. Rice always + achieves." _The Baltimore News._ + + "To the making of 'Porzia' Mr. Rice has summoned all the resources of + his dramatic skill. On the constructive side it is particularly + strong.... The opening scene is certainly one of the happiest Mr. Rice + has written, while the climaxing third act is a brilliant piece of + character study.... The play is rich in poetry;... in it Mr. Rice has + scored another success ... in a field where work of permanent value is + rarely achieved." _Albert S. Henry (The Book News Monthly)._ + + "Mr. Rice apes neither the high-flown style of the Elizabethans, nor the + turgid and cryptic style of Browning.... 'Porzia' should attract the + praise of all who wish to see real literature written in this country + again." _The Covington (Ky.) Post._ + + "The complete mastery of technique, the dignity and dramatic force of + the characters, the beauty of the language and clear directness of the + style together with the vivid imagination needed to portray so + strikingly the renaissance spirit and atmosphere, make the work one that + should last." _The Springfield (Mass.) Homestead._ + + "It is not unjust to say that Cale Young Rice holds in America the + position that Stephen Phillips holds in England." _The Scotsman + (Edinburgh)._ + + "Had no other poetic drama than this been written in America, there + would be hope for the future of poetry on the stage." _John G. Neihardt + (The Minneapolis Journal)._ + + + + + FAR QUESTS + + CALE YOUNG RICE + + + "The countrymen of Cale Young Rice apparently regard him as the equal of + the great American poets of the past. _Far Quests_ is good + unquestionably. It shows a wide range of thought, and sympathy, and real + skill in workmanship, while occasionally it rises to heights of + simplicity and truth, that suggest such inspiration as should mean + lasting fame."--_The Daily Telegraph (London)._ + + "Mr. Rice's lyrics are deeply impressive. A large number are complete + and full-blooded works of art."--_Prof. Wm. Lyon Phelps (Yale + University)._ + + "_Far Quests_ contains much beautiful work--the work of a real poet in + imagination and achievement."--_Prof. J. W. Mackail (Oxford + University)._ + + "Mr. Rice is determined to get away from local or national limitations + and be at whatever cost universal.... These poems are always animated by + a force and freshness of feeling rare in work of such high + virtuosity."--_The Scotsman (Edinburgh)._ + + "Mr. Cale Young Rice is acknowledged by his countrymen to be one of + their great poets. There is great charm in his nature songs (of this + volume) and in his songs of the East. Mr. Rice writes with great + simplicity and beauty."--_The Sphere (London)._ + + "Mr. Rice's forte is poetic drama. Yet in the act of saying this the + critic is confronted by such poems as _The Mystic_.... These are the + poems of a thinker, a man of large horizons, an optimist profoundly + impressed with the pathos of man's quest for happiness in all + lands."--_The Chicago Record-Herald._ + + "Mr. Rice's latest volume shows no diminuition of poetic power. + Fecundity is a mark of the genuine poet, and a glance through these + pages will demonstrate how rich Mr. Rice is in vitality and variety of + thought.... There is too, the unmistakable quality of style. It is + spontaneous, flexible, and strong with the strength of simplicity--a + style of rare distinction."--_Albert S. Henry, (The Book News Monthly, + Philadelphia)._ + + + + + THE IMMORTAL LURE + + CALE YOUNG RICE + + + It is great art--with great vitality. _James Lane Allen._ + + In the midst of the Spring rush there arrives one book for which all + else is pushed aside.... We have been educated to the belief that a man + must be long dead before he can be enrolled with the great ones. Let us + forget this cruel teaching.... This volume contains four poetic dramas + all different in setting, and all so beautiful that we cannot choose one + more perfect than another.... Too extravagant praise cannot be given Mr. + Rice. _The San Francisco Call._ + + Four brief dramas, different from Paola & Francesca, but excelling + it--or any other of Mr. Phillips's work, it is safe to say--in a vivid + presentment of a supreme moment in the lives of the characters.... They + form excellent examples of the range of Mr. Rice's genius in this field. + _The New York Times Review._ + + Mr. Rice is quite the most ambitious, and most distinguished of + contemporary poetic dramatists in America. _The Boston Transcript (W. + S. Braithwaite.)_ + + The vigor and originality of Mr. Rice's work never outweigh that first + qualification, beauty.... No American writer has so enriched the body of + our poetic literature in the past few years. _The New Orleans Picayune._ + + Mr. Rice is beyond doubt the most distinguished poetic dramatist America + has yet produced. _The Detroit Free Press._ + + That in Cale Young Rice a new American poet of great power and + originality has arisen cannot be denied. He has somehow discovered the + secret of the mystery, wonder and spirituality of human existence, + which has been all but lost in our commercial civilization. May he + succeed in awakening our people from sordid dreams of gain. _Rochester + (N. Y.) Post Express._ + + No writer in England or America holds himself to higher ideals (than Mr. + Rice) and everything he does bears the imprint of exquisite taste and + the finest poetic instinct. _The Portland Oregonian._ + + In simplicity of art form and sheer mystery of romanticism these poetic + dramas embody the new century artistry that is remaking current + imaginative literature. _The Philadelphia North American._ + + Cale Young Rice is justly regarded as the leading master of the + difficult form of poetic drama. _Portland (Me.) Press._ + + Mr. Rice has outlived the prophesy that he would one day rival Stephen + Phillips in the poetic drama. As dexterous in the mechanism of his art, + the young American is the Englishman's superior in that unforced quality + which bespeaks true inspiration, and in a wider variety of manner and + theme. _San Francisco Chronicle._ + + Mr. Rice's work has often been compared to Stephen Phillips's and there + is great resemblance in their expression of high vision. Mr. Rice's + technique is sure ... his knowledge of his settings impeccable, and one + feels sincerely the passion, power and sensuous beauty of the whole. + "Arduin" (one of the plays) is perfect tragedy; as rounded as a sphere, + as terrible as death. _Review of Reviews._ + + The Immortal Lure is a very beautiful work. _The Springfield (Mass.) + Republican._ + + The action in Mr. Rice's dramas is invariably compact and powerful, his + writing remarkably forcible and clear, with a rare grasp of form. The + plays are brief and classic. _Baltimore News._ + + These four dramas, each a separate unit perfect in itself and differing + widely in treatment, are yet vitally related by reason of the one + central theme, wrought out with rich imagery and with compelling + dramatic power. _The Louisville Times (U. S.)_ + + The literary and poetical merit of these dramas is undeniable, and they + are charged with the emotional life and human interest that should, but + do not, always go along with those other high gifts. _The (London) + Bookman._ + + Mr. Rice never [like Stephen Phillips] mistakes strenuous phrase for + strong thought. He makes his blank verse his servant, and it has the + stage merit of possessing the freedom of prose while retaining the + impassioned movement of poetry. _The Glasgow (Scotland) Herald._ + + These firm and vivid pieces of work are truly welcome as examples of + poetic force that succeeds without the help of poetic license. _The + Literary World (London.)_ + + We do not possess a living American poet whose utterance is so clear, so + felicitous, so free from the inane and meretricious folly of sugared + lines.... No one has a better understanding of the development of + dramatic action than Mr. Rice. _The Book News Monthly (Albert S. + Henry.)_ + + + COUNTRY LIFE IN AMERICA + + THE WORLD'S WORK + + THE GARDEN MAGAZINE + + DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO., GARDEN CITY, N. Y. + + + + + MANY GODS + + By + + CALE YOUNG RICE + + + "These poems are flashingly, glowingly full of the East.... What I am + sure of in Mr. Rice is that here we have an American poet whom we may + claim as ours." _The North American Review (William Dean Howells)._ + + "Mr. Rice has the gift of leadership ... and he is a force with whom we + must reckon." _The Boston Transcript._ + + ... "We find here a poet who strives to reach the goal which marks the + best that can be done in poetry." _The Book News Monthly (A. S. + Henry)._ + + "When you hear the pessimists bewailing the good old time when real + poets were abroad in the land ... do not fail to quote them almost + anything by Cale Young Rice, a real poet writing to-day.... He has done + so much splendid work one can scarcely praise him too highly." _The San + Francisco Call._ + + "In 'Many Gods' the scenes are those of the East, and while it is not + the East of Loti, Arnold or Hearn, it is still a place of brooding, + majesty, mystery and subtle fascination. There is a temptation to quote + such verses for their melody, dignity of form, beauty of imagery and + height of inspiration." _The Chicago Journal._ + + "'Love's Cynic' (a long poem in the volume) might be by Browning at his + best." _Pittsburg Gazette-Times._ + + "This is a serious, and from any standpoint, a successful piece of work + ... in it are poems that will become classic." _Passaic (New Jersey) + News._ + + "Mr. Rice must be hailed as one among living masters of his art, one to + whom we may look for yet greater things." _Presbyterian Advance._ + + "This book is in many respects a remarkable work. The poems are indeed + poems." _The Nashville Banner._ + + "Mr. Rice's poetical plays reach a high level of achievement.... But + these poems show a higher vision and surer mastery of expression than + ever before." _The London Bookman._ + + + _Net, $1.25_ (_postage 12c._) + + + + + NIRVANA DAYS + + Poems by + + CALE YOUNG RICE + + + "Mr. Rice has the technical cunning that makes up almost the entire + equipment of many poets nowadays, but human nature is more to him always + ... and he has the feeling and imaginative sympathy without which all + poetry is but an empty and vain thing." _The London Bookman._ + + "Mr. Rice's note is a clarion call, and of his two poems, 'The Strong + Man to His Sires' and 'The Young to the Old,' the former will send a + thrill to the heart of every man who has the instinct of race in his + blood, while the latter should be printed above the desk of every minor + poet and pessimist.... The sonnets of the sequence, 'Quest and + Requital,' have the elements of great poetry in them." _The Glasgow + (Scotland) Herald._ + + "Mr. Rice's poems are singularly free from affectation, and he seems to + have written because of the sincere need of expressing something that + had to take art form." _The Sun (New York)._ + + "The ability to write verse that scans is quite common.... But the + inspired thought behind the lines is a different thing; and it is this + thought untrammeled--the clear vision searching into the deeps of human + emotion--which gives the verse of Mr. Rice weight and potency.... In the + range of his metrical skill he easily stands with the best of living + craftsmen ... and we have in him ... a poet whose dramas and lyrics will + endure." _The Book News Monthly (A. S. Henry)._ + + "These poems are marked by a breadth of outlook, individuality and + beauty of thought. The author reveals deep, sincere feeling on topics + which do not readily lend themselves to artistic expression and which he + makes eminently worth while." _The Buffalo (N. Y.) Courier._ + + "We get throughout the idea of a vast universe and of the soul merging + itself in the infinite.... The great poem of the volume, however, is + 'The Strong Man to His Sires.'" _The Louisville Post (Margaret S. + Anderson)._ + + "The poems possess much music ... and even in the height of intensified + feeling the clearness of Mr. Rice's ideas is not dimmed by the obscure + haze that too often goes with the divine fire." _The Boston Globe._ + + + _Paper boards. Net, $1.25_ (_postage 12c._) + + + + + A NIGHT IN AVIGNON + + By + + CALE YOUNG RICE + + _Successfully produced by Donald Robertson_ + + + "It is as vivid as a Page From Browning. Mr. Rice has the dramatic + pulse." _James Huneker._ + + "It embraces in small compass all the essentials of the drama." _New + York Saturday Times Review (Jessie B. Rittenhouse)._ + + "It presents one of the most striking situations in dramatic literature + and its climax could not be improved." _The San Francisco Call._ + + "It has undeniable power, and is a very decided poetic achievement." + _The Boston Transcript._ + + "It leaves an enduring impression of a soul tragedy." _The Churchman._ + + "Since the publication of his 'Charles di Tocca' and other dramas, Cale + Young Rice has justly been regarded as a leading American master of that + difficult form, and many critics have ranked him above Stephen Phillips, + at least on the dramatic side of his art. And this judgment is further + confirmed by 'A Night in Avignon.' It is almost incredible that in less + than 500 lines Mr. Rice should have been able to create so perfect a + play with so powerful a dramatic effect." _The Chicago Record-Herald + (Edwin S. Shuman)._ + + "There is poetic richness in this brilliant composition; a beauty of + sentiment and grace in every line. It is impressive, metrically pleasing + and dramatically powerful." _The Philadelphia Record._ + + "It offers one of the most striking situations in dramatic literature." + _The Louisville Courier-Journal._ + + "The publication of a poetic drama of the quality of Mr. Rice's is an + important event in the present tendency of American literature. He is a + leader in this most significant movement, and 'A Night in Avignon' is + marked, like his other plays, by dramatic directness, high poetic + fervor, clarity of poetic diction, and felicity of phrasing." _The + Chicago Journal._ + + "It is a dramatically told episode, and the metre is most effectively + handled, making a welcome change for blank verse, and greatly enhancing + the interest." _Sydney Lee._ + + "Many critics, on hearing Mr. Bryce's prediction that America will one + day have a poet, would be tempted to remind him of Mr. Rice." _The + Hartford (Conn.) Courant._ + + + _Net 50c._ (_postage 5c._) + + + + + YOLANDA OF CYPRUS + + A Poetic Drama by + + CALE YOUNG RICE + + + "It has real life and drama, not merely beautiful words, and so differs + from the great mass of poetic plays." _Prof. Gilbert Murray._ + + Minnie Maddern Fisk says: "No one can doubt that it is superior + poetically and dramatically to Stephen Phillips's work," and that Mr. + Rice ranks with Mr. Phillips at his best has often been reaffirmed. + + "It is encouraging to the hope of a native drama to know that an + American has written a play which is at the same time of decided poetic + merit and of decided dramatic power." _The New York Times._ + + "The most remarkable quality of the play is its sustained dramatic + strength. Poetically it is frequently of great beauty. It is also lofty + in conception, lucid and felicitous in style, and the dramatic pulse + throbs in every line." _The Chicago Record-Herald._ + + "The characters are drawn with force and the play is dignified and + powerful," and adds that if it does not succeed on the stage it will be + "because of its excellence." _The Springfield Republican._ + + "Mr. Rice is one of the few present-day poets who have the steadiness + and weight for a well-sustained drama." _The Louisville Post (Margaret + Anderson)._ + + "It has equal command of imagination, dramatic utterance, picturesque + effectiveness and metrical harmony." _The London (England) Bookman._ + + _T. P.'s Weekly_ says: "It might well stand the difficult test of + production and will be welcomed by all who care for serious verse." + + _The Glasgow (Scotland) Herald_ says: "Yolanda of Cyprus is finely + constructed; the irregular blank verse admirably adapted for the + exigencies of intense emotion; the characters firmly drawn; and the + climax serves the purpose of good stagecraft and poetic justice." + + "It is well constructed and instinct with dramatic power." _Sydney Lee._ + + "It is as readable as a novel." _The Pittsburg Post._ + + "Here and there an almost Shakespearean note is struck. In makeup, + arrangement, and poetic intensity it ranks with Stephen Phillips's + work." _The Book News Monthly._ + + + Net, $1.25 (postage 10c.) + + + COUNTRY LIFE IN AMERICA + + THE WORLD'S WORK + + THE GARDEN MAGAZINE + + DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO., GARDEN CITY, N. Y. + + + + + DAVID + + A Poetic Drama by + + CALE YOUNG RICE + + + "I was greatly impressed with it and derived a sense of personal + encouragement from the evidence of so fine and lofty a product for the + stage." _Richard Mansfield._ + + "It is a powerful piece of dramatic portraiture in which Cale Young Rice + has again demonstrated his insight and power. What he did before in + 'Charles di Tocca' he has repeated and improved upon.... Not a few + instances of his strength might be cited as of almost Shakespearean + force. Indeed the strictly literary merit of the tragedy is altogether + extraordinary. It is a contribution to the drama full of charm and + power." _The Chicago Tribune._ + + "From the standpoint of poetry, dignity of conception, spiritual + elevation and finish and beauty of line, Mr. Rice's 'David' is, perhaps, + superior to his 'Yolanda of Cyprus,' but the two can scarcely be + compared." _The New York Times (Jessie B. Rittenhouse)._ + + "Never before has the theme received treatment in a manner so worthy of + it." _The St. Louis Globe-Democrat._ + + "It needs but a word, for it has been passed upon and approved by + critics all over the country." _Book News Monthly._ And again: "But few + recent writers seem to have found the secret of dramatic blank verse; + and of that small number, Mr. Rice is, if not first, at least without + superior." + + "With instinctive dramatic and poetic power, Mr. Rice combines a + knowledge of the exigencies of the stage." _Harper's Weekly._ + + "It is safe to say that were Mr. Rice an Englishman or a Frenchman, his + reputation as his country's most distinguished poetic dramatist would + have been assured by a more universal sign of recognition." _The + Baltimore News (writing of all Mr. Rice's plays)._ + + + _Net, $1.25_ (_postage 12c._) + + + + + CHARLES DI TOCCA + + By + + CALE YOUNG RICE + + + "I take off my hat to Mr. Rice. His play is full of poetry, and the + pitch and dignity of the whole are remarkable." _James Lane Allen._ + + "It is a dramatic poem one reads with a heightened sense of its fine + quality throughout. It is sincere, strong, finished and noble, and + sustains its distinction of manner to the end.... The character of + Helena is not unworthy of any of the great masters of dramatic + utterance." _The Chicago Tribune._ + + "The drama is one of the best of the kind ever written by an American + author. Its whole tone is masterful, and it must be classed as one of + the really literary works of the season." (1903). _The Milwaukee + Sentinel._ + + "It shows a remarkable sense of dramatic construction as well as poetic + power and strong characterization." _James MacArthur, in Harper's + Weekly._ + + "This play has many elements of perfection. Its plot is developed with + ease and with a large dramatic force; its characters are drawn with + sympathy and decision; and its thoughts rise to a very real beauty. By + reason of it the writer has gained an assured place among playwrights + who seek to give literary as well as dramatic worth to their plays." + _The Richmond (Va.) News-Leader._ + + "The action of the play is admirably compact and coherent, and it + contains tragic situations which will afford pleasure not only to the + student, but to the technical reader." _The Nation._ + + "It is the most powerful, vital, and truly tragical drama written by an + American for some years. There is genuine pathos, mighty yet never + repellent passion, great sincerity and penetration, and great elevation + and beauty of language." _The Chicago Post._ + + "Mr. Rice ranks among America's choicest poets on account of his power + to turn music into words, his virility, and of the fact that he has + something of his own to say." _The Boston Globe._ + + "The whole play breathes forth the indefinable spirit of the Italian + renaissance. In poetic style and dramatic treatment it is a work of + art." _The Baltimore Sun._ + + + _Paper boards. Net, $1.25_ (_postage, 9c._) + + + + + SONG-SURF + + (Being the Lyrics of Plays and Lyrics) by + + CALE YOUNG RICE + + + "Mr. Rice's work betrays wide sympathies with nature and life, and a + welcome originality of sentiment and metrical harmony." _Sydney Lee._ + + "In his lyrics Mr. Rice's imagination works most successfully. He is an + optimist--and in these days an optimist is irresistible--and he can + touch delicately things too holy for a rough or violent pathos." _The + London Star (James Douglas)._ + + "Mr. Rice's highest gift is essentially lyrical. His lyrics have a charm + and grace of melody distinctively their own." _The London Bookman._ + + "Mr. Rice is keenly responsive to the loveliness of the outside world, + and he reveals this beauty in words that sing themselves." _The Boston + Transcript._ + + "Mr. Rice's work is everywhere marked by true imaginative power and + elevation of feeling." _The Scotsman._ + + "Mr. Rice's work would seem to rank with the best of our American poets + of to-day." _The Atlanta Constitution._ + + "Mr. Rice's poems are touched with the magic of the muse. They have + inspiration, grace and true lyric quality." _The Book News Monthly._ + + "Mr. Rice's poetry as a whole is both strongly and delicately spiritual. + Many of these lyrics have the true romantic mystery and charm.... To + write thus is no indifferent matter. It indicates not only long work but + long brooding on the beauty and mystery of life." _The Louisville Post._ + + "Mr. Rice is indisputably one of the greatest poets who have lived in + America.... And some of these (earlier) poems are truly beautiful." _The + Times-Union (Albany, N. Y.)_ + + + _Net, $1.25_ (_postage 12c._) + + + + +Transcriber's Notes: + + + Text in italics is indicated with underscores: _italics_. + + Punctuation has been corrected without note. + + The letter o with a macron on page 17 is indicated by [=o] + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Night in Avignon, by Cale Young Rice + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A NIGHT IN AVIGNON *** + +***** This file should be named 36636.txt or 36636.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/6/6/3/36636/ + +Produced by David Garcia, David E. 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