IRISH PATRIOT POETS ARE LAUDED BY "A.E."

"There is no country in Europe where poets have more influence upon their nation than in Ireland," said George William Russell, noted Irish poet and painter, known as "A. E.", in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter after his lecture and reading yesterday afternoon in the New Lecture Hall. "In every movement of national scope," he said, "the poets have been very active. I believe that in Ireland there will always be a race of heroic idealists. The poets in their imagination have connected earth imagination have connected earth with heaven."

Mr. Russell displayed a glowing fervor while he endeavored to show the intensity of the patriotism of the Irish poets whose works he had just been reading to a large audience. The lecture was originally scheduled to be given in Emerson D, but the capacity of that room proving too small for the crowd, it was forced to be adjourned to the New Lecture Hall.

In his talk, Mr. Russell "spoke" several poems of his notable contemporaries in the modern Irish literary movement. Among the works recited were poems by William Butler Yeats, George Moore, and George Bernard Shaw.

"The most striking aspect of the United States as I have found it, is the architecture," he went on, in answer to the reporter's query. "I tis really awe-inspiring. I can readily perceive a re- lationship between ancient. Nineveh and the towering cities here. At any moment I fancy that I may see some city dwellers from ancient Babylon appear in the tall buildings.