The South Atlantic Quarterly - 19 Author:Duke University Volume: 19 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1902 Original Publisher: Duke University Press Subjects: Culture Literature Foreign Language Study / General History / Civilization Literary Collections / American / General Literary Criticism / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR r... more »eprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Poets of The American Ambulance Walter Graham Western Reserve University Honored by many writers, the widely read work of the soldier poets in the Great War is sufficiently well known today; but little has been written or known of the work done by youthful poets engaged in no less gallant service to humanity among the ambulance units -- many of them, long before the United States of America took a worthy place among the fighting nations. Yet these versifiers of the Service Automobile Americain found an outlet for their suppressed emotions, when, like the soldiers, in the intervals between periods of prodigious activity, they could relax and put their thoughts and moods into expression. Much of their verse has been lost, of course; but a good deal of it was published in the Field Service Bulletin, a little periodical issued weekly in Paris. And to this publication we turn today for a survey and summary of the work of these youthful singers. After the modest beginnings of the American Ambulance (hospital) in Paris, early in the winter of 1914, more and more automobiles were given by Americans, and these cars and their drivers -- usually American volunteers -- became the nucleus of the Paris branch of the American Ambulance Service. In April, 1915, Piatt Andrew and others organized the Field Service, with headquarters at an historic chateau at Passy. Later, an independent section ...« less