SOURCE: A review of "East and West: The Discovery of America and Other Poems", by Ernest Fenollosa, in The Dial, Vol. XVI, No. 189, May 1, 1894, pp. 272-75.

In the following essay, Payne determines that the poet characterizes the West as masculine and the East as feminine.

Mr. Fenollosa's [East and West: The Discovery of America, and Other Poems.] consists of two long and very ambitious poems, and a number of minor pieces. The titular poem is a sort of versified Culturgeschiehte, philosophical and mystical, in spirit not unlike Mr. Block's "El Nuevo Mundo," which we reviewed a year or so ago. In this poem, says the author, "I have endeavored to condense my experiences of two hemispheres, and my study of their history." The poem is in five parts. The first considers the early meeting of East and West, brought about by the conquests of Alexander. Then follow "The...