Allen Norton

Allen Norton was an American poet and literary editor of the 1910s and 20s. He and his wife Louise Norton edited the little magazine "Rogue", published from March to September 1915. The periodical, partly financed by Walter Conrad Arensberg, served as an early showcase for the work of Arensberg himself, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy, and Alfred Kreymborg [Crunden, Robert Morse. "American Salons: Encounters With European Modernism, 1885-1917". Page 412. Oxford University Press, 1993.] . Norton's 1914 volume of verse, "Saloon Sonnets With Sunday Flutings", was published by Donald Evan's Claire Marie Press [MacGann, Jerome John. "Black Riders: the Visible Language of Modernism". Page 19. Princeton University Press, 1993.] . Heavily influenced by fin-de-siècle aestheticism, Alice Corbin Henderson remarked that his work, along with the poetry of Evans himself, represented something of a revival of that style [Monroe, Harriet (editor). "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse". Volume V: October-March, 1914-5. Page 41] . Poems in the volume included "Impressions of Oscar Wilde", "Modern Love" and "Mrs. Eddy: a Mask".

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* [http://books.google.com/books?id=o22xz6C4EqcC&pg=PA24& "Virginette", a poem by Allen Norton, in 1918's "Greenwich Village Anthology of Verse"]

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