Edna Denham Raymond: brilliant poet and lecturer

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EDNA DENHAM RAYMOND
Brilliant Poet and Lecturer


STRIKING PERSONALITY
The first impression that Edna Denham Raymond makes upon her audience is beauty and charm.  She is one whose very entry upon the platform radiates a sense of magnetic personality.



CLEVER AND VERSATILE
She attracts and holds her hearers throughout her programs, which she varies to meet the occasion, with cleverness and versatility; much of what she does is impromptu and timely.



INTERESTING AND INSPIRING
Her diction is free and clear, her subjects interesting with a touch of the idealist that makes them inspiring, all expressed in a vivid, sparkling, and attractive manner.  Mrs. Raymond speaks as she writes, poetically, and the final impression of the audience is a desire to hear more.



PRESS COMMENTS
The following have been selected from a large number of tributes Mrs. Raymond has received from newspapers concerning her poetry, her readings, and her pleasing personality.



DRAMATIC ABILITY

Mrs. Raymond, a poet, has demonstrated that she is more than a poet.  With dramatic ability and a magnetic personality she held and charmed her audience with an interesting narrative interspersed here and there with her own lyrics, which aptly illustrated her subject.  Mrs. Raymond is far from the type usually attributed to the poet; though she is the ideal poet, she is more the well dressed woman of society, with charm and grace, a clear, well modulated voice, and complete absence of affectation.
Cincinnati Times-Star.



CHARMING

Mrs. Raymond is very charming, and her work is not in the new and tortured vein.  There's experience as well as grace, daintiness and an archly whimsical viewpoint.  But the lady herself—that's the arch-poem, the cantata 'in excelsis,' the epic that is also a lyric.
Herald-Post (Louisville).



GENIUS

She shows the depth of her study and perception in attaining the masculine viewpoint as well as the feminine, a broad understanding that is unique, with a power of expression and an amazing revelation of richness and artistry.  She has the fire of Byron with the lyric charm of Shelly, yet an inspiration and genius that are all her own.
Indianapolis Star.



MOST UNUSUAL

This woman does possess what Meredith Nicholson called 'a sensitiveness to beauty that is most unusual.'
Oakland (California) Tribune.



Notable Lectures on Life and Poetry

The Spirit of the Age
Poets and Poetry
Why Make Happiness a Mirage?
Struggles of the Modern Writer
Justification for a Lecturer
My Acquaintance With James Whitcomb Riley (and other poets and authors)
Children's Programs, Fairy Tales in Rhyme and Junior Subjects (Reading of poems with lectures)



POETIC FANCIES

To attempt to analyze her moods would be to injure the poetic fancies that come so prolifically and with seemingly astonishing ease.
Dayton News.



INTERESTING LECTURES

When you meet Mrs. Raymond you are due for a surprise.  Her accomplishments are numerous; she paints well, she delivers very interesting lectures, and she knows an astonishing number of people.  In fact, James Whitcomb Riley used to come out to the Raymond home in Indianapolis.
East St. Louis Daily Journal.



IMMORTAL LIFE

Sparks and Embers, poems that deserve wide distribution and as near immortal life as modern things can lay claim to, by Edna Denham Raymond.  Her work rises far above the average mental product of our age.
The Lariat, Portland, Oregon.



IMAGINATION

The author has an unusually fine tempered imagination.
Chicago Post.



APPEAL

Edna Denham Raymond is a young Indianapolis poet whose poetry has shown in a short time much wider appeal than most books of verse which deserve the name poetry.
Chicago Daily News.



COMPARISON

Sapphire Nights contains lyrics that Laurence Hope or Ella Wheeler Wilcox would have been proud to sign.
New York Tribune.



LOVELY

One of the most noted of all Hoosiers to visit the incurious metropolis lately.  Mrs. Raymond's new volume of poems is winning not only the plaudits of the literati in particular, but everyone is enormously engrossed in absorbing its contents, while all eyes are turned upon the young woman herself—she, who is as lovely as her loveliest poem.
New York Times.



APPRECIATION

Whatever the mood, always there is a rising inflection to the voice of the spirit, always is the expression rhythmical, the lines flow rhythmically, rhymes are true, and every poem shows the author's appreciation of beauty, both in material things and those of the spirit.
Boston Evening Transcript.

Daniel Frohman, dean of the American Theatre, said, after a reading in New York City: Mrs. Raymond has given us an interesting, sincere and
 refreshing talk.  We who have heard this young poetess can not soon forget her or her poetry, so full of understanding and beauty.

Meredith Nicholson, well-known author, said: Edna Raymond's poems show great delicacy of feeling and an elusive, flower-like charm that is quite indefinable.  Here, I think, is a true poetic gift.



HER PUBLISHER
Mrs. Raymond has taken New York by storm.  Everywhere she has gone she has been received with enthusiasm.  Her poetry is a true reflection of her beautiful personality, and Indiana is to be congratulated on adding to her long list of great names in American literature another author who deserves to take rank with the best.  Her voice, I think, will be heard not only through the country, but wherever the English language is understood.  We are proud to be her publishers.


VOLUMES PUBLISHED
SPARKS AND EMBERS
Observations of Life

SAPPHIRE NIGHTS
Love Lyrics



IN PREPARATION
CHILDREN'S FAIRY POEMS ESSAYS



Address: 2869 North Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Indiana
Telephone, Talbot 6319

Publishers: ALBERT & CHARLES BONI, NEW YORK