
As one of the "Forty Immortals" elected by "THE CRITIC'S readers in the spring of 1884, we should value your answer to the question raised by Mr. Edmund Gosse in his paper in the October Forum, entitled "Has America Produced a Poet?"—the question, namely, whether any American poet, not now living, deserves a place among the thirteen "English inheritors of unassailed renown" (Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Gray, Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats).
Do you deem any American poet worthy of this honor?
If so, which one?
Very sincerely yours, J. L. & J. B. GilderYour name will not be mentioned separately if you object
letter in response sent Oct 20 WW