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Title: The Baconian Heresy.
Review: Walter Conrad Arensberg was an important poet in the development of literary cubism. He and Gertrude Stein developed this idiom before classic French modernist Reverdy. This movement was determinative in the development of modern verse. Later representatives include Laura Riding (Jackson), Yvor Winters' early poems, Kenneth Rexroth, and the Objectivists but it's influence certainly is not limited to them. In later life Arensberg devoted his fortune to proving the Baconian Heresy the idea that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's works. This is silly and a complete waste of time. Why then is Arensberg's writings on Francis Bacon in print and not his poems. Damned if I know.
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