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A Rural Strain
Young, Stanley | July 24, 1937 issue

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The article focuses on two books "Hounds on the Mountain," by James Still and "Country Men," by James Hearst. These two books of regional pastorals prove that the poetic huntsmen are similarly up in the Middle West. In each instance the work of these young Americans springs from a single locale and expresses itself in what is almost a single vein. The common things of rural character and rural scenery out of which Still and Hearst make their poetry stand upon daily knowledge. The titles are homespun and suggest the Frostian influence. Hearst writes of Farm on a Summer Night and Still uses mountain preachers, horse-traders and mountain dulcimers for his subject matter.

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BOOKS; HOUNDS on the Mountain (Book); COUNTRY Men (Book); STILL, James; HEARST, James; HUNTERS; POETRY
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