Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Kansas in Literature, Vol. 1: Poetry; With a Historical Sketch and a Bibliography
The burden of the grasshopper years, 187 4 and 1875, depressed the literary activities of Kansas, if we may judge from the fact that the five years beginning with 1 8 7 4 saw but eight volumes of belles lettres published by Kansans. One of the ventures of this time was the monu mental work of D. W. Wilder, The Annals of Kansas. In compiling this invaluable chronicle Mr. Wilder, who is qualified for literary work of a much higher order, gave an edifying example of self-denying scholarship. The discrimination, the restraint, the judicial fairness mani fested in the Annals are qualities which command grateful recognition, although the work can be called lit er ature only in the broadest sense.
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