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STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Cur. Lit. 39 ('05): 106 (portrait). Dial, 40 ('06): 125; 47 ('09): 100. Nation, 81 ('05): 17, 508. See also Book Review Digest, 1905.
Edna St. Vincent Millay—poet, dramatist.
Born at Rockland, Maine, 1892. A.B., Vassar, 1917. Connected with the Provincetown players both as dramatist and as actress.
Miss Millay's first poem, "Renascence," was published in The Lyric Year, 1912.
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
1. The poems need to be read aloud to give the full effect of their passion and lyric beauty.
2. Compare Miss Millay's naivete with that of Blake. Do you find suggestions of philosophy behind it or sheer emotion?
3. Does Miss Millay's later work show growth toward greatness or toward sophisticated cleverness?
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Renascence and other Poems. 1917. A Few Figs from Thistles: Poems and Four Sonnets. 1920. Aria da Capo. 1920. (Play; published in The Monthly Chapbook, 1920.) Second April. 1921. The Lamp and the Bell. 1921. (Play.)
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Untermeyer.
Freeman, 1 ('20): 307; 4 ('21): 189. Poetry, 13 ('18): 167; 19 ('21): 151. See also Book Review Digest, 1918, 1921.
Enos A(bijah) Mills—Nature writer.
Born near Kansas City, Kansas, 1870. Self-educated. Worked on a ranch fourteen years. Foreman in a mine. Went to the Rocky Mountains early in life. Built a home on Long's Peak, Colorado, 1886. Has explored the Rocky Mountains extensively, alone, on foot, and without firearms. Colorado "snow observer" for Government, 1907, 1908.
Mr. Mills has done valuable work for the protection of wild animals and flowers and for the establishment of national parks. His work belongs with that of Thoreau, Burroughs, and Muir (by whom he was influenced to continue it) for its freshly observed Nature content.
Among his best-known books are, perhaps, The Story of a Thousand Year Pine, 1914, and The Story of Scotch, 1916 (dog story).
For complete bibliography, see Who's Who in America.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 51 ('20): 103. Lit. Digest, 55 ('17): July 14, p. 44. Sunset, 38 ('17): 40 (portrait).
Philip Moeller—dramatist.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Helena's Husband. 1916. Madame Sand; a Biographical Comedy. 1917. Five Somewhat Historical Plays. 1918. (Helena's Husband; A Road-house in Arden; Sisters of Susannah; The Little Supper; Pokey.) (Burlesques.) Two Blind Beggars and One Less Blind; a Tragic Comedy in One Act. 1918. Moliere; a Romantic Play in Three Acts. 1919. Sophie, a Comedy. 1919. (Prologue by Carl Van Vechten.)
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
See Book Review Digest, 1918, 1920.
Harriet Monroe (Illinois)—critic, poet.
Editor of Poetry, 1912—. Compiler of The New Poetry; an Anthology (with Alice Corbin, q.v.), 1917. For bibliography of her poems, cf. Who's Who in America.
Marianne Moore—poet.
Her reputation was established by her poems in Others, 1916, 1917, 1919, and in the Dial and Poetry (passim). Her first volume, Poems, was published in 1921. Cf. Poetry, 20 ('22): 208.
Paul Elmer More—critic, man of letters.
Born at St. Louis, 1864. A.B., Washington University, 1887; A.M., 1892; Harvard, 1893. Honorary higher degrees. Taught Sanskrit at Harvard, 1894-5; Sanskrit and classical literature at Bryn Mawr, 1895-7. Literary editor of The Independent, 1901-3; New York Evening Post, 1903-9. Editor of The Nation, 1909-14.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A Century of Indian Epigrams; Chiefly from the Sanskrit of Bhartrihari. 1898. The Jessica Letters, an Editor's Romance. 1904. (With Mrs. L.H. Harris.) *Shelburne Essays, (11 volumes.) 1904-21. Nietzsche. 1912. Platonism. 1917. The Religion of Plato. 1921.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Pattee.
Acad. 80 ('11): 353. Ath. 1909, 1: 67; 1920, 1: 703. Bookm. (Lond.) 44 ('13): 256; 58 ('20): 207. Critic, 45 ('04): 395 (portrait). Cur. Op. 55 ('13): 126. Ind. 65 ('08): 1337 (portrait). Outlook, 81 ('05): 678. Philos. R. 26 ('17): 409. Putnam's, 1 ('07): 716 (portrait) 752. Review, 2 ('20): 54. R. of Rs. 60 ('19): 190 (portrait). Sat. Rev. 132 ('21): 323. Sewanee R. 26 ('18): 63. Spec. 116 ('16): 632; 125 ('20): 113.
Christopher (Darlington) Morley—essayist, poet.
Born at Haverford, Pennsylvania, 1890. A.B., Haverford College, 1910. Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, 1910-13. Editorial staff Doubleday, Page and Company, 1913-17; Ladies Home Journal, 1917-18; Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger, 1918-20. In 1920, began his column, "The Bowling Green" in the New York Evening Post.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Eighth Sin. 1912. Parnassus on Wheels. 1917. Songs for a Little House. 1917. Shandygaff. 1918. The Rocking Horse. 1919. The Haunted Book Shop. 1919. In the Sweet Dry and Dry. 1919. (With Bart Haley.) Mince Pie. 1919. Travels in Philadelphia. 1920. Kathleen. 1920. Hide and Seek. 1920. (Poems.) Chimneysmoke. 1921. Modern Essays. 1921. (Compilation.) Plum Pudding. 1921. Tales from a Roll-Top Desk. 1921. Where the Blue Begins. 1922. Thursday Evening. 1922. (Play.)
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 46 ('18): 657 (portrait). Everybody's 42 ('20): Feb., p. 29 (portrait). Ind. 94 ('18): 412 (portrait). Lit. Digest, 63 ('19): Oct. 18, p. 27=Liv. Age, 303 ('19): 170. Outlook, 124 ('20): 202 (portrait).
George Jean Nathan—critic, man of letters.
Born at Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1882. A.B., Cornell, 1904. On editorial staff of the New York Herald, 1904-6. On the staffs of various magazines, including Harper's Weekly, the Associated Sunday Magazine, and the Smart Set, usually as dramatic critic, 1906-14. With James Huneker (q.v.) dramatic critic for Puck, 1915-6. Dramatic critic for the National Syndicate of Newspapers since 1912. Editor since 1914 of The Smart Set (with H.L. Mencken, q.v.).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Europe After 8:15. 1914. (With H.L. Mencken, q.v., and Willard Huntingdon Wright.) Another Book on the Theatre. 1916. Bottoms Up. 1917. Mr. George Jean Nathan Presents. 1917. A Book Without a Title. 1918. The Popular Theatre. 1918. Comedians All. 1919. Heliogabalus. 1920. (With H.L. Mencken, q.v.) The American Credo. 1920. (With H.L. Mencken, q.v.). The Theatre, the Drama, the Girls. 1921. The Critic and the Drama. 1922.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Hatteras, O.A.J. Pistols for Two. 1917.
Bookm. 43 ('16): 282 (portrait only); 53 ('21): 163. Cur. Op. 63 ('17): 95 (portrait). See also Book Review Digest, 1919, 1920.
Robert Nathan—novelist.
Author of: Peter Kindred. 1919. Autumn. 1921.
Cf. Book Review Digest, 1919, 1921.
John G(neisenau) Neihardt—poet.
Born at Sharpsburg, Illinois, 1881. Finished scientific course at Nebraska Normal College, 1897; Litt. D., University of Nebraska, 1917. Lived among the Omaha Indians, 1901-7, studying them and their folk lore. Has worked many years on an American epic cycle of pioneer life. Shared with Gladys Cromwell (q.v.) the prize of the Poetry Society of America, 1919.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A Bundle of Myrrh. 1907. Man-Song. 1909. The River and I. 1910. The Dawn-Builder. 1911. The Stranger at the Gate. 1912. The Death of Agrippina. 1913. (Also in Poetry, 2 ['13]:33.) Life's Lure. 1914. The Song of Hugh Glass. 1915. The Quest. 1916. (Collected lyrics.) *The Song of Three Friends. 1919. The Splendid Wayfaring. 1920. The Two Mothers. 1921. (Eight Hundred Rubles; Agrippina.)
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
House, J.T. John G. Neihardt: Man and Poet. 1920.
Bookm. 47 ('18): 395; 49 ('19): 496. Lit. Digest, 69 ('21): May 14, p. 31 (portrait). Poetry, 7 ('16): 264; 17 ('20): 94. Putnam's, 4 ('08): 473, 506 (portrait). See also Book Review Digest, 1919, 1920.
A(lfred) Edward Newton—essayist.
Born at Philadelphia, 1863. Educated in private schools. Business man. Collector of first editions of books, especially of the eighteenth century.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections. 1918. A Magnificent Farce, and Other Diversions of a Book-Collector. 1921.
For reviews, see Book Review Digest, 1921.
Meredith Nicholson—novelist, man of letters.
Born at Crawfordsville, Indiana, 1866. His reputation was founded upon the novel, The House of a Thousand Candles, 1905. He has published also several volumes of essays and studies, beginning with The Hoosiers (National Studies in American Letters), 1900. Note among them The Valley of Democracy, 1918, a characterization of the Middle West. For bibliography, cf. Who's Who In America.
Charles Gilman Norris—novelist.
Brother of Frank Norris, the novelist. Married Kathleen Thompson (cf. Kathleen Norris).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Amateur. Salt: The Education of Griffith Adams. 1918. Brass. 1921.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 47 ('18): 679. New Repub. 29 ('21): 48. (Lovett.) See also Book Review Digest, 1918, 1921.
Kathleen Norris—novelist.
Born at San Francisco, 1880. Educated privately. Had experience as business woman. Married Charles Gilman Norris (q.v.), 1909.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Mother. 1911. The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne. 1912. *"Saturday's Child." 1914. The Story of Julia Page. 1915. The Heart of Rachael. 1916. Martie, the Unconquered. 1917. The Beloved Woman. 1921. Lucretia Lombard. 1922.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Overton.
Bookm. 34 ('11): 437 (portrait); 37 ('13): 109 (portrait). See also Book Review Digest, 1911, 1913-7.
Grace Fallow Norton—poet.
Born at Northfield, Minnesota, 1876.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Little Gray Songs from St. Joseph's. 1912. The Sister of the Wind. 1914. Roads. 1916. What is Your Legion? 1916.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Poetry, 5 ('14): 87; 11 ('17): 164. See also Book Review Digest, 1912, 1914, 1916.
Frederick O'Brien—travel writer.
Mr. O'Brien's account of his experiences in the Marquesas Islands created a literary fashion for the South Sea Islands.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
White Shadows in the South Seas. 1919. Mystic Isles of the South Seas. 1921.
See Book Review Digest, 1919, 1921.
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill—dramatist.
Born in New York City, 1888. Son of the actor, James O'Neill. Studied at Princeton, 1906-7. Much of the material used in his plays seems to be drawn from or based upon his adventurous experiences between 1907 and 1914. Actor and newspaper reporter. Spent two years at sea. In 1909, is said to have gone on a gold-prospecting expedition in Spanish Honduras (cf. Gold). Lived in the Argentine. Threatened tuberculosis gave him his first leisure (cf. The Straw). In 1914-5, he studied dramatization at Harvard. In 1918, when he married, he went to live in a deserted life-saving station near Provincetown. Associated with the Provincetown Players. In 1920, his Beyond the Horizon was given the Pulitzer Prize.
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
1. What effect has Mr. O'Neill's life experience had upon the quality of his plays?
2. What evidence of originality do you find in his (1) themes, (2) background, and (3) technique?
3. Consider the influence of Joseph Conrad (cf. Manly and Rickert, Contemporary British Literature) upon O'Neill. Read especially The Nigger of the "Narcissus."
4. How has Mr. O'Neill been influenced by the plays of John Millington Synge?
5. What do you make of the fact that Mr. O'Neill has struck out in various directions instead of working a particular vein?
6. What reasons do you find for the common opinion that he is our most promising dramatist? What limitations or weaknesses do you think may interfere with his development? Do you think he will become a great dramatist?
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Thirst, and Other One-Act Plays. 1914. (The Web, Warnings, Fog, Recklessness.) Before Breakfast. 1916. The Moon of the Caribbees, and Other Plays of the Sea. 1919. (Bound East for Cardiff; The Long Voyage Home; In the Zone; Ile; Where the Cross is Made; The Rope.) *Chris Christopherson. 1919. (Produced as Anna Christie, quoted with illustrations, Cur. Op. 72 ['22]: 57.) *Beyond the Horizon. 1920. Gold. 1920. The Emperor Jones; Diff'rent; The Straw. 1921. The Hairy Ape; Anna Christie; The First Man. 1922.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 53 ('21): 511; 54 ('22): 463. Century, 103 ('22): 351 (portrait). Cur. Op. 65 ('18): 159 (portrait); 68 ('20): 339. Everybody's, 43 ('20): July, p. 49 (portrait). Freeman, 1 ('20): 44. Ind. 105 ('21): 158 (portrait). Nation, 113 ('21): 626. New Repub. 25 ('21): 173. Theatre Arts M. 4 ('20): 286; 5 ('21): 174 (portrait only).
James Oppenheim—novelist, short-story writer, poet.
Born at St. Paul, Minnesota, 1882. Two years later his family moved to New York, where he has lived ever since. Special student at Columbia, 1901-3. Has done settlement work, as assistant head worker of the Hudson Guild Settlement. Superintendent of the Hebrew Technical School for Girls, 1904-7. In 1916-7 edited the magazine, The Seven Arts (cf. Poetry, 9 ['16-'17]: 214).
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
1. The following influences have entered largely into Oppenheim's work: Whitman, the Bible, and the theories of psycho-analysis developed by Freud and Jung. Without considering these, no fair estimate of the value of his work can be reached.
2. In what respects does his poetry reflect the Oriental temperament?
3. What strength do you find in his work? what weakness?
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Doctor Rast. 1909. (Short stories.) Monday Morning and Other Poems. 1909. Wild Oats. 1910. (Novel.) The Pioneers. 1910. (Poetic play.) *Pay-Envelopes. 1911. (Short stories.) The Nine-Tenths. 1911. (Novel.) The Olympian: A Story for the City. 1912. Idle Wives. 1914. *Songs for the New Age. 1914. The Beloved. 1915. War and Laughter. 1916. (Poems.) The Book of Self. 1917. (Poems.) Night. 1918. (Poetic drama in one act.) *The Solitary. 1919. (Poems.) The Mystic Warrior. 1921.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Untermeyer.
Acad. 89 ('15): 218. Bookm. 30 ('09): 322 (portrait), 393. Dial, 67 ('19): 301. Ind. 88 ('16): 533 (portrait). Nation, 109 ('19): 441. New Statesman, 6 ('16): 332. Outlook, 102 ('12): 207 (portrait). Poetry, 5 ('14): 88; 11 ('18): 219; 16 ('20): 49; 20 ('22): 216. R. of Rs. 47 ('13): 243 (portrait)
Vincent O'Sullivan—novelist.
Of American birth, but has lived many years in England. His work published in the time of the Yellow Book was especially admired by the English critic, Edward Garnett, who maintained that Mr. O'Sullivan should rank high among our writers. American editions of The Good Girl and Sentiment were published in 1917.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A Book of Bargains. 1896. (With frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley.) Poems. 1896. The Houses of Sin. 1897. (Poems.) Green Window. 1899. A Dissertation upon Second Fiddles. 1902. Human Affairs. 1905. The Good Girl. 1912. Sentiment and Other Stories. 1913.
See Book Review Digest, 1917.
Thomas Nelson Page—novelist, short-story writer.
Born on a Virginia plantation, 1853. Studied a short time at Washington and Lee University. Many higher honorary degrees. Practiced law in Richmond, Virginia, 1875-93. Ambassador to Italy, 1913-9.
Mr. Page is one of the pioneer writers in negro dialects. His first collection of short stories, In Ole Virginia, 1887, is his best-known work.
For bibliography, see Cambridge, III (IV), 668. For biography and criticism, see Halsey, Harkins, Pattee, Toulmin, and the Book Review Digest, especially for 1906, 1909, 1913.
Josephine Preston Peabody (Mrs. L.S. Marks)—poet, dramatist.
Born in New York City. Educated at Girls' Latin School, Boston, and at Radcliffe, 1894-6. Instructor in English at Wellesley College, 1901-3. Her play The Piper obtained the Stratford-on-Avon prize in 1910. Died in 1922.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Wayfarers—A Book of Verse. 1898. Fortune and Men's Eyes—New Poems with a Play. 1900. Marlowe, a Drama. 1901. The Singing Leaves. 1903. Pan—A Choric Idyl. 1904. The Wings. 1905. (Play.) The Book of the Little Past. 1908. The Piper. 1909. (Play.) The Singing Man. 1911. (Poems.) The Wolf of Gubbio. 1913. (Play.) Harvest Moon. 1916. (War poems.) The Chameleon. 1917. Portrait of Mrs. W. 1922.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Eaton, W.P. Plays and Players, 1916. Moses. Rittenhouse.
Bk. Buyer, 21 ('00): 9 (portrait). Bookm. 32 ('10): 7 (portrait); 47 ('18): 550. Critic, 40 ('02): 14 (portrait). Cur. Lit. 49 ('10): 435 (portrait). New Eng. M. n.s. 33 ('05): 426; 39 ('08): 225 (portrait), 236; 42 ('10): 270 (portrait). Poetry, 9 ('17): 269.
Bliss Perry—critic.
Born at Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1860. A.B., Williams, 1881; A.M., 1883. Studied at the universities of Berlin and Strassburg. Honorary higher degrees. Professor of English at Williams College, 1886-93; at Princeton, 1893-1900. Editor of the Atlantic Monthly, 1899-1909. Professor of English literature at Harvard, 1907—. Harvard lecturer at University of Paris, 1909-10.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Broughton House. 1890. Salem Kittredge, and Other Stories. 1894. The Plated City. 1895. The Powers at Play. 1899. (Short stories.) A Study of Prose Fiction. 1902. The Amateur Spirit. 1904. Park St. Papers. 1909. The American Mind. 1912. The American Spirit in Literature. 1918. The Study of Poetry. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 12 ('00): 359, 362 (portrait); 36 ('12): 443. Dial, 70 ('21): 347. Lit. W. 30 ('99): 264. Outlook, 78 ('04): 880 (portrait); 102 ('12): 648. R. of Rs. 34 ('06): Dec., p. 758; 46 ('12): Dec., p. 749. (Portraits.) Spec. 110 ('13): 809.
William Lyon Phelps—critic.
Born at New Haven, Connecticut, 1865. A.B., Yale, 1887; Ph.D. 1891; A.M., Harvard, 1891. Instructor in English literature at Yale, 1892-6, assistant professor of the English language and literature, 1896-1901; Lampson professor since 1901. Deacon in the Baptist Church.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Essays on Modern Novelists. 1910. Essays on Russian Novelists. 1911. Essays on Books. 1914. Browning. 1915. The Advance of the English Novel. 1916. The Advance of English Poetry. 1918. Archibald Marshall. 1918. The Twentieth Century Theatre. 1918. Reading the Bible. 1919. Essays on Modern Dramatists. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 41 ('15): 585 (portrait), 587; 31 ('10): 349 (portrait). Ind. 71 ('11): 815 (portrait). Lond. Times, Mar. 17, 1910: 95. Poetry, 14 ('19): 159. R. of Rs. 45 ('12): 103 (portrait).
David Pinski—dramatist.
Born in Russia, 1873. Educated at the University of Berlin, 1897-9. Came to the United States, 1899. Studied at Columbia, 1903-4. President of Pinski-Massel Press. President of Jewish National Workers' Alliance. Socialist-Zionist.
His reputation is based principally upon his five volumes of plays and two of stories in Yiddish, but he has also written in English.
BIBLIOGRAPHY (of works in English)
The Treasure. 1916. (Comedy.) Three Plays. 1918. Little Heroes; The Stranger. 1918. (In Goldberg, I., Six Plays of the Yiddish Theatre. Second Series.)
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Cambridge.
See also Book Review Digest, 1918-20.
Edwin Ford Piper (Nebraska, 1871)—poet.
Mr. Piper's volume, (Barbed Wire and Other Poems, 1917) reflects the prairies of the Middle West.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Untermeyer.
Poetry, 12 ('18): 276. See also Book Review Digest, 1917.
Ernest Poole—novelist.
Born at Chicago, 1880. A.B., Princeton, 1902. Lived in University Settlement, New York, 1902-5, studying social conditions, especially in connection with child labor, and in the movement to fight tuberculosis. He helped Upton Sinclair (q.v.) gather stockyards material for The Jungle. War correspondent in Germany and France, 1914-5. As a socialist, Mr. Poole also worked for a time in Russia with the revolutionaries.
The familiarity with dockyards and dockmen, which is such a striking feature of The Harbor, dates back to Mr. Poole's boyhood.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Voice of the Street. 1906. The Harbor. 1915. His Family. 1917. His Second Wife. 1918. The Village. 1918. "The Dark People," Russia's Crisis. 1918. Blind. 1920. Beggar's Gold. 1921.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 41 ('15): 115 (portrait). Cur. Op. 58 ('15): 266 (portrait). Ind. 94 ('18): 229 (portrait). Mentor, 6 ('18): 7 (portrait). R. of Rs. 51 ('15): 631 (portrait). Unpop. R. 6 ('16): 231. World Today, 18 ('10): 232 (portrait). See also Book Review Digest, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1920.
Ezra (Loomis) Pound—poet, critic.
Born at Hailey, Idaho, 1885. Of English descent; on his mother's side distantly related to Longfellow. Ph.B., Hamilton College. Fellow of the University of Pennsylvania. Traveled in Spain, in Italy, in Provence, 1906-7; lived in Venice, and finally made his home in England. London editor of The Little Review, 1917-9, and foreign correspondent of Poetry, 1912-9.
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
1. Mr. Pound is an experimenter in verse, who has come under many influences and belonged to many schools. His work should be studied chronologically to discover these changes in interest and relationship. To be noted among the influences are: (1) the mediaeval poetry of Provence; (2) the Greek poets; (3) the Latin poets of the Empire; (4) among modern French poets, Laurent Tailhade; (5) the poets of China and Japan, whom he learned to know through the manuscript notes of Ernest Fenollosa; (6) the work of the English Imagists (cf. especially the poems of T.E. Hulme, published in Mr. Pound's volume called Ripostes); (7) the work of the Vorticist school of poets and artists (cf. Blast, edited by Wyndham Lewis), and the more accessible periodical, The Egoist, of which Richard Aldington (cf. Manly and Rickert, Contemporary British Literature) is assistant editor.
2. Consider also this from his own theory of poetry: "Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, spheres and the like, but equations for the human emotions. If one have a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite."
Can this be related to the qualities of Mr. Pound's poetry?
3. After reading Mr. Pound's output, discuss the adequacy of the following: "When content has become for an artist merely something to inflate and display form with, then the petty serves as well as the great, the ignoble equally with the lofty, the unlovely like the beautiful, the sordid as the clean.... Real feeling consequently becomes rarer, and the artist descends to trivialities of observation, vagaries of assertion, or mere bravado of standards and expression—pure tilting at convention."
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Provenca: Poems Selected from Personae, Exultations, and Canzoniere. 1910. The Spirit of Romance. 1910. The Sonnets and Ballate of Cavalcanti. 1912. (Translations.) Ripostes of Ezra Pound, whereto are Appended the Complete Poetical Works of T.E. Hulme. 1912. Gaudier Brzeska; a Memoir. 1916. Lustra of Ezra Pound, with Earlier Poems. 1917. Noh; or, Accomplishment; a Study of the Classical Stage of Japan. 1917. (With Ernest F. Fenollosa.) Pavannes and Divisions. 1918. (Essays and sketches.) Quia Pauper Amavi. 1919. (English edition.) Instigations, 1920. (Criticism.) *Umbra: the Early Poems of Ezra Pound, All That He Now Wishes to Keep in Circulation from "Personae," "Exultations," "Ripostes." With Translations from Guido Cavalcanti and Arnaut Daniel and Poems by the Late T.E. Hulme. 1920. Also in: Des Imagistes. 1914. Poetry. (Passim.) The Little Review. (Passim.)
Cf. also Ezra Pound, his Metric and Poetry. 1917. (Bibliography, p. 29.)
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Untermeyer.
Acad. 81 ('11): 354. Ath. 1911, 2: 238; 1919, 2: 1065, 1132, 1268. Bookm. 35 ('12): 156; 46 ('18): 577. Bookm. (Lond.) 36 ('09): 154 (portrait); 52 ('17): 151. Chapbook, 1-2: May, 1920: 22. (Fletcher.) Dial, 54 ('13): 370; 69 ('20): 283 (portrait); 72 ('22): 87. Egoist, 2 ('15): 71; 4 ('17): 7, 27, 44. Eng. Rev. 2 ('09): 627. Ind. 70 ('11): 259 (portrait). Lond. Times, Sept. 20, 1918: 437. New Repub. 16 ('18): 83. New Statesman, 8 ('17): 332, 476. No. Am. 211 ('20): 658. (May Sinclair.) Poetry, 7 ('16): 249 (Carl Sandburg); 11 ('18): 330; 12 ('18): 221; 14 ('19): 52 (William Gardner Hale); 15 ('20): 211; 16 ('20): 213.
(John) Herbert Quick (Iowa, 1861)—novelist.
Farmer, lawyer, editor of Farm and Fireside, 1909-16. Author of The Fairview Idea, 1919; and of Vandemark's Folly 1922, which introduces fresh material (canalboat life) into fiction, and also contributes to the literature that deals with the opening up of the middle west.
See Book Review Digest, 1919.
Lizette Woodworth Reese—poet.
Born at Baltimore, in 1856. Educated in private and public schools. Teacher in Baltimore high school.
Her poems, always conventional in form and limited in ideas, are admired for their simplicity, intensity of emotion, and perfection of technique.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A Branch of May. 1887. A Handful of Lavender. 1891. A Quiet Road. 1896. A Wayside Lute. 1909. Spicewood. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Rittenhouse. Untermeyer.
Agnes Repplier—essayist.
Born at Philadelphia, 1858, of French extraction. Educated at the Sacred Heart Convent, Torresdale, Pennsylvania. Litt. D., University of Pennsylvania, 1902. Has traveled much in Europe. Roman Catholic.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books and Men. 1888. Points of View. 1891. Essays in Miniature. 1892. Essays in Idleness. 1893. In the Dozy Hours. 1894. Varia. 1897. The Fireside Sphinx. 1901. Compromises. 1904. In Our Convent Days. 1905. A Happy Half Century. 1908. Americans and Others. 1912. The Cat. 1912. (Compilation.) Counter Currents. 1915. Points of Friction. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Halsey. (Women.) Pattee.
Critic, 45 ('04): 302; 47 ('05): 204. (Portraits). Lit. Digest, 48 ('14): 827 (portrait). Lond. Times, Aug. 10, 1916: 378. New Repub. 7 ('16): 20. (Francis Hackett.) New Statesman, 7 ('16): 597. Outlook, 78 ('04): 880 (portrait). Spec. 117 ('16): 105.
Alice (Caldwell) Hegan Rice (Mrs. Cale Young Rice)—novelist.
Born at Shelbyville, Kentucky, 1870. Educated in private schools. One of the founders of the Cabbage Patch Settlement House, Louisville. Uses her own experience in charity work in her books.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. 1901. Lovey Mary. 1903. Sandy. 1905. Captain June. 1907. Mr. Opp. 1909. A Romance of Billy Goat Hill. 1912. The Honorable Percival. 1914. Calvary Alley. 1917. Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories. 1918. Turn About Tales. 1920. (With Cale Young Rice, q.v.) Quin. 1921.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Overton.
Bookm. 29 ('09): 412; 32 ('10): 369. Bookm. (Lond.) 24 ('03): 158 (portrait), 160. Outlook, 72 ('02): 802 (portrait); 78 ('04): 282, 286 (portrait). See also Book Review Digest, 1905, 1907, 1909, 1912, 1918.
Cale Young Rice (Kentucky, 1872)—poet, dramatist.
Collected Plays and Poems. 1915. For later volumes, cf. Who's Who in America.
Lola Ridge—poet, critic.
Born at Dublin, Ireland, but brought up in Sydney, Australia. As a child, lived also in New Zealand, but studied art in Australia. In 1907 she came to the United States and supported herself for three years by writing fiction for the popular magazines. But finding that this work was going to kill her creative ability, she earned her living in a variety of other ways—as organizer, advertisement writer, illustrator, artist's model, factory worker, etc.—while she wrote poems. Her reputation was made by the publication of The Ghetto in 1918.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Ghetto and Other Poems. 1918. Sun-up and Other Poems. 1920. Also in: Others, 1919.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Untermeyer.
Dial, 66 ('18): 83. (Aiken.) New Repub. 17 ('18): 76. (Hackett.) Poetry, 13 ('19): 335; 17 ('21): 332. See also Book Review Digest, 1918, 1920.
James Whitcomb Riley—poet.
Born at Greenfield, Indiana, 1853, of Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. Educated in the public schools, but received many higher honorary degrees. Died in 1916.
Mr. Riley came to be the representative poet of his native state, the "Hoosier poet," and many of his poems are written in the dialect of Indiana, but his reputation is national. His numerous poems were collected and published in ten volumes, as Complete Works, in 1916. For detailed bibliography, cf. Cambridge, III (IV), 651.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Cambridge. Pattee.
Atlan. 118 ('16): 503. (Nicholson.) Bookm. 20 ('04): 18; 33 ('11): 67 (portrait); 35 ('12): 357 (portrait), 637; 38 ('13): 163 (portrait), 598; 44 ('16): 22 (portraits), 58, 79. Cur Lit. 41 ('06): 160 (portrait); 57 ('14): 425 (portrait). Cur. Op. 61 ('16): 196 (portrait). J. Educ. 84 ('16): 149, 298. Lit. Digest, 47 ('13): 782; 53 ('16): Aug. 1, pp. 304 (portrait), 408; 51 ('15): 730. Nation, 97 ('13): 332. No. Am. 204 ('16): 421. Outlook, 111 ('15): 249, 273 (portrait), 396; 113 ('16): 778. R. of Rs. 54 ('16): 327 (portrait). World's Work, 22 ('11): 14777 (portrait); 25 ('13): 565. Yale R. n.s. 9 ('20): 395.
Charles George Douglas Roberts—novelist, poet, Nature writer.
Born at Douglas, New Brunswick, 1860. Studied at the University of New Brunswick, 1876. Has been a teacher, editor, soldier. In France during the War.
Major Roberts has published many volumes of poems, besides novels and animal stories.
For bibliography, see Who's Who (English). For reviews, see Book Review Digest, 1914, 1916, 1919.
Edwin Arlington Robinson—poet.
Born at Head Tide, Maine, 1869. Educated at Gardiner, Maine, on the Kennebec River ("Tilbury Town"). Studied at Harvard, 1891-3. Struggled in various ways to make a living in New York, even working in the subway, while publishing his first poems. His Captain Craig, 1902, attracted the attention of Roosevelt, who gave the author a position in the New York Custom House, which he held 1905-10. Since then he has been able to give his entire time to poetry.
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
1. A good introduction to Mr. Robinson's work is Miss Lowell's review of his Collected Works, in the Dial, 72 ('22): 130. Although Miss Lowell's contention that Mr. Robinson is our greatest living poet would be disputed by some critics, her article suggests many points of departure in the study of his very important contribution to American poetry.
2. Divide Mr. Robinson's work into two groups: (1) poems of which the material is based upon literature; (2) those of which it comes from his own life experience. Is it possible to say now which of these two groups has the best chance of long endurance? Can you decide how far literature has had a good effect upon Mr. Robinson's work, and how far it has lessened the value of his poetry?
3. Consider as a group the poems that grow out of Mr. Robinson's New England origin. In what ways is he characteristic of New England? Compare his work with that of Mr. Frost in this respect.
4. Compare and contrast Mr. Robinson's portraits of persons with names as titles with similar portraits in the Spoon River Anthology. This type of verse seems to have been developed independently by both poets.
5. An interesting study could be made of the influence on Robinson of Crabbe; another, of the influence of Hardy.
6. Another interesting study might grow out of the consideration of Robinson as a poet born twenty years too soon. How much has the temper of his work been determined by the fact that he had to wait so long for recognition?
7. What are the main features of Mr. Robinson's philosophy as suggested in the poems?
8. Can you find many poems that sing? What is to be said of the poet's mastery of rhythms?
9. After reading the best of Mr. Robinson's work, it is interesting to look up the comments of various admirers of it published on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday, in the New York Times, December 21, 1919, or the quotations from this article in Poetry, 15 ('20): 265, and to see how far your judgment bears out these extravagant statements.
10. The influence of Robinson's work on younger American poets, especially on Lindsay and Sandburg, makes an interesting study.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Torrent and the Night Before. 1896. (Privately printed.) The Children of the Night. 1897. Captain Craig. 1902. The Town down the River. 1910. Van Zorn. 1914. (Play.) The Porcupine. 1915. (Play.) The Man against the Sky. 1916. Merlin. 1917. Lancelot. 1919. The Three Taverns. 1920. *Collected Poems. 1921. Avon's Harvest. 1921.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Boynton. Lowell. Untermeyer.
Atlan. 98 ('06): 330. Bk. Buyer, 25 ('02): 429. Bookm. 45 ('17): 429 (portrait); 47 ('18): 551; 50 ('20): 507; 51 ('20): 457. Chapbook, 1-2, May, 1920: 1. (Fletcher.) Dial, 34 ('03): 18; 72 ('22): 130. (Amy Lowell.) Fortn. 86 ('06): 429. Forum, 45 ('11): 80; 51 ('14): 305. Ind. 55 ('03): 446. Lit. Digest, 64 ('20): Jan. 10: p. 32 (portrait), 40. Nation, 75 ('02): 465; 111 ('20): 453. New Eng. M. 33 ('05): 425. New Repub. 2 ('15): 267; 7 ('16): 96 (Amy Lowell); 23 ('20): 259. No. Am. 211 ('20): 121. Outlook, 105 ('13): 736, 744 (portrait); 112 ('16): 786; 123 ('19): 535. Poetry, 8 ('16): 46; 10 ('17): 211; 15 ('20): 265; 16 ('20): 217; 20 ('22): 278. Scrib. M. 66 ('19): 763.
Edwin Meade Robinson—poet, novelist.
Born at Lima, Indiana, 1879. Not related to Edwin Arlington Robinson. Newspaper man, first on the Indianapolis Sentinel, later on the Cleveland Plain Dealer, in which he conducts a column. Besides his successful volume of verse, Piping and Panning, 1920, Mr. Robinson has published a novel which has attracted attention as an honest record of a growing boy, Enter Jerry, 1920. For reviews, see Book Review Digest, 1920, 1921.
Carl Sandburg—poet.
Born at Galesburg, Illinois, of Swedish stock. Has little schooling but wide experience of life. At thirteen drove a milk wagon, and for the next six years did all kinds of rough work—as porter in a barber shop, scene-shifter, truck-handler in a brickyard, turner apprentice in a pottery, dishwasher in hotels, harvest hand in Kansas.
During the Spanish-American War served as private in Porto Rico.
Studied at Lombard College, Galesburg, 1898-1902, where he was captain of the basket-ball team and editor-in-chief of the college paper.
After leaving college, earned his living in various ways—as advertising manager for a department store, salesman, newspaperman, "safety first" expert. Worked also as district organizer for the Social-Democratic party of Wisconsin and was secretary to the mayor of Milwaukee, 1910-12.
In 1904 he had published a small pamphlet of poems, but his first real appearance before the public was in Poetry, 1914. In the same year he was awarded the Levinson prize for his "Chicago." In 1918 he shared with Margaret Widdemer (q.v.) the prize of the Poetry Society of America; and in 1921, shared this with Stephen Vincent Benet (q.v.).
Mr. Sandburg has a good voice and sings his poems to the accompaniment of the guitar.
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
1. In judging Mr. Sandburg's work, it is important to remember that his theory involves complete freedom from conventions of all sorts—in thinking, in metrical form, and in vocabulary. His aim seems to be to reproduce the impressions that all phases of life make upon him.
2. Consider whether his early prairie environment had anything to do with the large scale of his imagination, the appeal to him of enormous periods of time, masses of men, and forces.
3. Do you find elements of universality in his exaggerated localisms? Do they combine to form a definite philosophy?
4. What effect do the eccentricities and crudities of form have upon you? Do you consider them an essential part of his poetic expression or blemishes which he may one day overcome?
5. Do you find elements of greatness in Mr. Sandburg's work? Do you think they are likely to outweigh his obvious defects?
6. Compare and contrast his democratic ideals with those of Lindsay.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Chicago Poems. 1916. Cornhuskers. 1918. The Chicago Race Riots. 1919. Smoke and Steel. 1920. Slabs of the Sunburnt West. 1922. Rootabaga Stories. 1922. (Children's stories.)
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Lowell. Untermeyer.
Bookm. 47 ('18): 389 (Phelps); 52 ('21): 242, 285 (for 385); 53 ('21) 389 (portrait); 54 ('21): 360. Chapbook, 1-2, May, 1920: 15. (Fletcher.) Dial, 61 ('16): 528; 65 ('18): 263 (Untermeyer). Liv. Age, 308 ('21): 231. New Repub. 22 ('20): 98; 25 ('20): 86. Poetry, 8 ('16): 90; 13 ('18): 155; 15 ('20): 271; 17 ('21): 266. Survey, 45 ('20): 12.
George Santayana—poet, critic.
Born at Madrid, Spain, 1863. Came to the United States, 1872. A.B., Harvard, 1886; A.M., Ph.D., 1889. In 1889 began to teach philosophy at Harvard; professor, 1907-12.
While Mr. Santayana's chief work is in philosophy, he belongs to literature by the beauty of his poems, especially his sonnets, and by the quality of his prose.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
*Sonnets and Other Poems. 1894. The Sense of Beauty. 1896. Lucifer—A Theological Tragedy. 1899. Interpretations of Poetry and Religion. 1900. The Hermit of Carmel, and Other Poems. 1901. The Life of Reason. 1905. Three Philosophical Poets. 1910. Winds of Doctrine. 1913. Philosophical Opinion in America. 1918. Character and Opinion in the United States. 1920. *Little Essays. 1920. (Selected with author's collaboration, by Logan Pearsall Smith, q.v.)
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Rittenhouse.
Acad. 79 ('10): 561. Ath. 1913, 1: 353. Bookm. 47 ('18): 546. Bookm. (Lond.) 58 ('20): 208. Critic, 42 ('03): 129. Cur. Op. 55 ('13): 120; 69 ('20): 860. (Portraits.) Harp. W. 58 ('13): 27. Ind. 61 ('06): 335 (portrait). Liv. Age, 307 ('20): 50; 310 ('21): 200; 312 ('21): 300. (J. Middleton Murry.) Lond. Mer. 2 ('20): 411. Nation, 109 ('19): 12. New Repub. 23 ('20): 221; 25 ('21): 321. New Statesman, 16 ('21): 729. Outlook, 126 ('20): 729 (portrait). Spec. 95 ('05): 119; 125 ('20): 239; 126 ('21): 19.
Lew R. Sarett—poet.
Born at Chicago, 1888. A.B., Beloit, 1911. Studied at Harvard, 1911-2; LL.B., University of Illinois, 1916. Woodsman and guide in the Northwest several months each year for nine years. Teacher of English and oratory. Since 1920, associate professor of oratory, Northwestern University. Lecturer on the Canadian North and on Indian life. Sarett's Many, Many Moons: A Book of Wilderness Poems, 1920 (with an introduction by Carl Sandburg), is a reflection of his familiarity with Indian material. Received the Levinson prize for his poem, "The Box of God," 1921.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Poetry, 17 ('20): 158. See also Book Review Digest, 1920.
Clinton Scollard—poet.
Born at Clinton, New York, 1860. A.B., Hamilton College, 1881. Studied at Harvard and at Cambridge, England. Professor of English literature, Hamilton College, 1888-96 and 1911—. Has published nearly forty volumes of graceful, accomplished verse. For bibliography, cf. Who's Who in America.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Rittenhouse.
Chaut. 35 ('02): 345. Critic, 40 (02): 295 (portrait). Lamp, 29 ('04): 451. See also Book Review Digest, 1915.
(Mrs.) Evelyn Scott—poet, novelist.
Mrs. Scott has lived many years in Brazil (cf. Poetry, 15 ['19]: 100).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Precipitations. 1920. (Poems.) The Narrow House. 1921. (Novel.)
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Cent 103 ('22): 520. (H.S. Canby.) Dial, 70 ('21): 591, 594. Lond. Mercury, 5 ('22): 319. New Repub. 28 ('21): 305. (Padraic Colum.) Poetry, 17 ('21): 334. (Lola Ridge.) See also Book Review Digest, 1920, 1921.
Anne Douglas Sedgwick (Mrs. Basil de Selincourt)—novelist.
Born at Englewood, New Jersey, 1873. Educated at home. Left America when nine years old and has since lived abroad, chiefly in Paris and London. Studied painting for several years in Paris. Her reputation was made by Tante, 1911. Her latest book is Adrienne Toner, 1922. For bibliography, see Who's Who in America.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Sedgwick, H.D., The New American Type and Other Essays. 1908.
Ath. 1911, 2: 553. Atlan. 109 ('12): 682. Bookm. 34 ('12): 655. Dial, 52 ('12): 323. Ind. 72 ('12): 678. Lond. Mercury, 5 ('22): 431. Lond. Times, May 13, 1920: 301. Nation, 94 ('12): 262. New Statesman, 15 ('20): 137 (Rebecca West); 18 ('21): 200 (Rebecca West).
Alan Seeger—poet.
Born in New York City, 1888. In his boyhood lived in Mexico, and later in Paris and London. Entered Harvard, 1906. In 1913, went to Paris. In the first weeks of the War, enlisted in the Foreign Legion of France and was in action almost continually. Killed July 4, 1916.
He won fame with his poem, "I Have a Rendezvous with Death."
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Poems. 1916. (Introduction by William Archer.) Letters and Diary. 1917.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 47 ('18): 399, 585. Eng. R. 27 ('18): 199. Lit. Digest, 53 ('16): 1190; 55 ('17): Oct. 27, p. 24 (portrait). Liv. Age, 294 ('17): 221. Lond. Times, June 29, 1917: 307; Dec. 14, 1917: 612. New Repub. 10 ('17): 160. New Statesman, 9 ('17): 356. Poetry, 10 ('17): 38. R. of Rs. 55 ('17): 208 (portrait). Scrib. M. 61 ('17): 123.
Ernest Thompson Seton—Nature writer.
Born at South Shields, England, 1860. Lived in the backwoods of Canada, 1866-70 and on the Western plains, 1882-87. Educated at the Toronto Collegiate Institute and (as artist) at the Royal Academy, London. Official naturalist to the government of Manitoba. Studied art in Paris, 1890-6. One of the illustrators of the Century Dictionary. Prominent in the organization of the Boy Scout movement in America. For many years kept full journals of his expeditions and observations (illustrated). These make the "most complete pictorial animal library in the world."
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wild Animals I Have Known. 1898. The Trail of the Sandhill Stag. 1899. The Biography of a Grizzly. 1900. Lobo, Rag and Vixen. 1900. Lives of the Hunted. 1901. Pictures of Wild Animals. 1901. Krag and Johnny Bear. 1902. Two Little Savages. 1903. Monarch, the Big Bear. 1904. Animal Heroes. 1905. Biography of a Silver Fox. 1909. Life-histories of Northern Animals. 1909. Wild Animals at Home. 1913. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain. 1916. Wild Animal Ways. 1916.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Halsey.
Acad. 82 ('12): 523. Am. M. 91 ('21): 14 (portrait). Atlan. 91 ('03): 298. Bookm. 13 ('21): 4; 25 ('07): 452. (Portraits.) Bookm. (Lond.) 45 ('13): 144 (portrait), 147. Bk. News, 18 ('00): 490. Craftsman, 19 ('10): 66 (portrait.) Critic, 39 ('01): 320 (portrait). Everybody's, 23 ('10): 473. Liv. Age, 232 ('02): 222. Outlook, 69 (!01): 904 (portrait). Spec, 105 ('10): 488; 117 ('16): 345.
Dallas Lore Sharp—Nature writer.
Born at Haleyville, New Jersey, 1870. A.B., Brown, 1895; S.T.B., Boston University, 1899; Litt. D., Brown, 1917. Ordained for the Methodist Episcopal ministry, 1896. Pastor, 1896-9; librarian, 1899-1902. On staff of Youth's Companion, 1900-3. Has taught English in Boston University since 1902, professor since 1909.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wild Life Near Home. 1901. A Watcher in the Woods. 1903. Roof and Meadow. 1904. The Lay of the Land. 1908. The Face of the Fields. 1911. Where Rolls the Oregon. 1914. The Hills of Hingham. 1916. Ways of the Woods. 1919. Patrons of Democracy. 1920. The Seer of Slabsides. 1921.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Cur. Lit. 37 ('04): 230 (portrait). Dial, 45 ('08): 297. See also Book Review Digest, 1914, 1916.
Edward Brewster Sheldon—dramatist.
Born at Chicago, 1886. A.B., Harvard, 1907; A.M., 1908. Mr. Sheldon's most successful play thus far is Romance, which was played by Doris Keane for almost ten years.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Nigger. 1910. The Boss. 1911. (Quinn, Representative American Plays, 1917.) Romance. 1914. (Baker, Modern American Plays, 1920.) The Garden of Paradise. 1915.
For bibliography of unpublished plays, cf. Cambridge, III (IV), 771.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Eaton, W.P. Plays and Players, 1916. At the New Theatre, 1910. Moses.
Harv. Grad. M. 17 ('09): 599 (portrait), 604. Outlook, 102 ('12): 947. See also Book Review Digest, 1910, 1914.
Stuart P(ratt) Sherman—critic.
Born at Anita, Iowa, 1881. A.B., Williams, 1903; A.M., Harvard, 1904; Ph.D., 1906. Taught English at Northwestern University, 1906-11; professor at the University of Illinois since 1911. Associate editor of the Cambridge History of American Literature.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
On Contemporary Literature. 1917. American and Allied Ideals. 1918.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Cur. Op. 64 ('18): 270 (portrait). Lamp, 29 ('04): 451, 452 (portrait). See also Book Review Digest, 1917.
Upton Sinclair—novelist.
Born at Baltimore, 1878. A.B., College of the City of New York, 1897. Did graduate work for four years at Columbia. Assisted in the government investigation of the Chicago stockyards, 1906 (cf. The Jungle). Socialist. Founded the Helicon Hall communistic colony at Englewood, New Jersey, 1906-7, and the Intercollegiate Socialist Society.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
King Midas. 1901. The Journal of Arthur Stirling. 1903. (Autobiographical.) *The Jungle. 1906. The Metropolis. 1908. The Money-changers. 1908. Plays of Protest. 1911. Sylvia. 1913. Sylvia's Marriage. 1914. The Cry for Justice. 1915. (Anthology.) King Coal, a Novel of the Colorado Strike. 1917. Jimmie Higgins. 1919. *The Brass Check. 1919. (Arraignment of commercialized newspapers and plea for an endowed newspaper.) 100%; the Story of a Patriot. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Arena, 35 ('06): 187 (portrait). Ath. 1912, 1: 558; 2: 247. Bookm. 23 ('06): 130 (portrait), 195, 244, 584; 24 ('07): 2, 443 (portrait). Chaut. 64 ('11): 175 (portrait). Cur. Lit. 41 ('06): 3 (portrait). Cur. Op. 66 ('19): 386; 68 ('20): 669 (portrait). Freeman, 4 ('21): 258, 262. Ind. 57 ('04): 1133 (portrait); 62 ('07): 711; 71 ('11): 326. Nation, 113 ('21): 347. New Statesman, 1 ('13): 209. Review, 4 ('21): 128. R. of Rs. 31 ('05): 117; 33 ('06): 760; 34 ('06): 6. (Portraits.) Spec. 96 ('06): 793; 99 ('07): 231. World Today, 11 ('06): 676; 21 ('11): 1197. (Portraits.)
Elsie Singmaster (Mrs. Harold Lewars)—novelist.
Born at Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, 1879. A.B., Radcliffe, 1909; Litt. D., Pennsylvania College, 1916. Her work deals with the Pennsylvania Dutch.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Gettysburg—Stories of the Red Harvest and the Aftermath. 1913. Katy Gaumer. 1914. Emmeline. 1916. Basil Everman. 1920. John Baring's House. 1920. Ellen Levis. 1921. Bennett Malin. 1922.
For reviews, see Book Review Digest, 1917, 1920.
Logan Pearsall Smith—essayist.
American scholar living in England. Belongs to literature through his Trivia—short prose poems, which suggest comparison with similar experiments by Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, and Marcel Schwob.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Youth of Parnassus and Other Stories. 1895. Trivia. 1902. (Revised ed., 1918.) More Trivia. 1921.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. (Lond.) 55 ('18): 68. Cur. Op. 64 ('18): 123 (portrait). Nation (Lond.), 26 ('19): 398. New Statesman, 10 ('17-'18): 233; 11 ('18): 134. Spec. 124 ('20): 50.
Wilbur Daniel Steele—novelist, short-story writer.
Born at Greensboro, North Carolina, 1886. A.B., University of Denver, 1907. Studied art in Boston, Paris, and New York, 1907-10.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Storm. 1914. Land's End. 1918.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 46 ('18): 704 (portrait). See also Book Review Digest, 1918.
George Sterling—poet.
Born at Sag Harbor, New York, 1869. Educated in private and public schools. About 1895 he moved to the West and now lives in California.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Testimony of the Suns and Other Poems. 1903. A Wine of Wizardry and Other Poems. 1908. The House of Orchids and Other Poems. 1911. Beyond the Breakers and Other Poems. 1914. The Caged Eagle and Other Poems. 1916. The Binding of the Beast and Other Poems. 1917. Lilith. 1919. (Dramatic poem.) Rosamond. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 47 ('18): 339. Poetry, 7 ('16): 307. See also Book Review Digest, 1916.
Wallace Stevens—poet.
A New York lawyer, living in Hartford, Connecticut, whose work although not as yet collected into a volume has attracted much attention. Received the Poetry prize for the best one-act play, in 1916, for his "Three Travellers Watch a Sunrise," and the Levinson prize for his "Pecksniffiana," 1920.
Mr. Stevens's art is purely decorative, and its effects must be studied as in pictorial art. He is an experimenter in free verse forms as well as in impressions.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Poems in Little Review. 1918. Others 1916, 1917, 1919. Poetry, vols. 7, 8, 11, 12, 15, 19, 20.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Chapbook, 1-2, May, 1920: 28. Poetry, 17 ('20): 155.
Arthur Stringer (Canada, 1874)—novelist.
Author of The Prairie Wife, 1915, and The Prairie Mother, 1920. For bibliography, see Who's Who in America.
Simeon Strunsky—essayist, man of letters.
Born at Vitebsk, Russia, 1879. A.B., Columbia, 1900. Department editor of the New International Encyclopedia, 1900-06, and editorial writer for the New York Evening Post, 1906—.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Patient Observer. 1911. Post-Impressions. An Irresponsible Chronicle. 1914. Belshazzar Court or Village Life in New York City. 1914. Professor Latimer's Progress. 1918. (Novel.) Little Journeys towards Paris. 1918. Sinbad and His Friends. 1921.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 51 ('20): 65. Cur. Op. 57 ('14): 198; 65 ('18): 51. (Portraits.) Ind. 80 ('14): 245 (portrait). See also Book Review Digest, 1914, 1918.
Ida M(inerva) Tarbell—essayist, historian.
Born in Erie County, Pennsylvania, 1857. A.B., Allegheny College, 1880; A.M., 1883. Honorary higher degrees. Associate editor of The Chautauquan, 1883-91. Studied in Paris at the Sorbonne and the College de France, 1891-4. On staff of McClure's and associate editor, 1894-1906. Associate editor of the American Magazine, 1906-15.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Early Life of Abraham Lincoln. 1896. (With J. McCan Davis.) Life of Abraham Lincoln. 1900. He Knew Lincoln. 1907. The Business of Being a Woman. 1912. The Ways of Women. 1915. New Ideals in Business. 1916. The Rising of the Tide. 1919. (Novel.) In Lincoln's Chair. 1920. Peacemakers—Blessed and Otherwise. 1922.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Am. M. 62 ('06): Oct., 569, 574 (portrait); 63 ('06): Nov., p. 79; 78 ('14): Nov., p. 10 (portrait only). Bookm. 16 ('03): 438. (Portraits.) Craftsman, 14 ('08): 2 (portrait). Critic, 46 ('05): 296 (portrait), 366. Cur. Lit. 37 ('04): 28; 52 ('12): 682. (Portraits.) Dial, 28 ('00): 192. Ind. 90 ('17): 34; 91 ('17): 19. (Portraits.) McClure's, 24 ('04): 109 (portrait), 217. Nation, 70 ('00): 164; 104 ('17): 84. Outlook, 64 ('00): 413; 78 ('04): 283 (portrait).
(Newton) Booth Tarkington—novelist, dramatist.
Born at Indianapolis, Indiana, 1869, of French ancestry on one side. Came early under the influence of Riley (q.v.), a neighbor. Educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Purdue University, and Princeton. Honorary higher degrees. Popular at college for his singing, acting and social talents. Began to study art but was not successful as an artist. Has written songs. Takes an active part in the social and political life of his state. Served in the Indiana legislature, 1902-3.
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
1. Consider separately Mr. Tarkington's studies of boy life (especially Penrod), and of adolescence (especially Seventeen and Clarence). Judged by your own experience and observation, are they presented with true knowledge and humor, or are they a farcical skimming of surface eccentricities? Compare them with Mark Twain's books about boys and with Howells's Boy's Town.
2. Consider separately the historical novels. Is pure romance Mr. Tarkington's field? Why or why not?
3. Consider the justice or the injustice of the following:
According to all the codes of the more serious kinds of fiction, the unwillingness—or the inability—to conduct a plot to its legitimate ending implies some weakness in the artistic character; and this weakness is Mr. Tarkington's principal defect.... Now this causes the more regret for the reason that he has what is next best to character in a novelist—that is, knack. He has the knack of romance, when he wants to employ it: a light, allusive manner; a sufficient acquaintance with certain charming historical epochs and the "properties" thereto pertaining...; a considerable experience in the ways of the "world"; gay colors, swift moods, the note of tender elegy. He has also the knack of satire, which he employs more frequently than romance ... he has traveled a long way from the methods of his greener days. Why, then, does he continue to trifle with his threadbare adolescents, as if he were afraid to write candidly about his coevals? Why does he drift with the sentimental tide and make propaganda for provincial complacency?
4. In what direction lies Mr. Tarkington's future? Is he likely to become more than a popular writer? What, if any, elements of enduring value do you find in his work?
5. What "Hoosier" elements do you find in his work? Compare him with Ade, Riley, Nicholson, and with the older writers of Indiana, Edward Eggleston, and Maurice Thompson.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Gentleman from Indiana. 1899. *Monsieur Beaucaire. 1900. (Dramatized, with E.G. Sutherland.) The Two Vanrevels. 1902. Cherry. 1903. In the Arena. 1905. The Conquest of Canaan. 1905. The Beautiful Lady. 1905. His Own People. 1907. The Guest of Quesnay. 1908. Beasley's Christmas Party. 1909. Beauty and the Jacobin. 1911. The Flirt. 1913. *Penrod. 1914. *The Turmoil. 1915. Penrod and Sam. 1916. *Seventeen. 1916. The Magnificent Ambersons. 1918. Ramsey Milholland. 1919. *Clarence. 1919. (Play.) *Alice Adams. 1921. Gentle Julia. 1922.
For bibliography of unpublished plays, cf. Who's Who in America.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Cooper. Eaton, W.P. At the New Theatre. 1910. Holliday, Robert C. Booth Tarkington. 1918. Nicholson, Meredith. The Hoosiers. (National Studies in American Letters.) 1900. Phelps.
Am. M. 83 ('17): Jan., p. 9; 86 ('18): Nov., p. 18. (Portraits.) Bookm. 16 ('02): 214 (portrait), 373; 21 ('05): 5 (portrait); 24 ('07): 605 (portrait); 42 ('16): 505, 507 (portrait); 46 ('17): 259 (portrait); 48 ('18): 493. Bookm. (Lond.) 55 ('19): 123 (portrait). Critic, 36 ('00): 399 (portrait); 37 ('00): 396. Cur. Lit. 30 ('01): 280. Harp. W. 46 ('02): 1773 (portrait). Ind. 52 ('00): 67, 2795 (portrait). Liv. Age, 300 ('19): 541. Mentor, 6 ('18): supp., p. 3 (portrait). Nation, 103 ('16): 330; 112 ('21): 233. (Carl Van Doren.) Outlook, 72 ('02): 817 (portrait); 90 ('08): 701; 126 ('20): 281; 128 ('21): 658 (portrait). World's Work, 39 ('20); 496 portrait).
Bert Leston Taylor ("B.L.T.", Massachusetts, 1866)—humorist, poet, "columnist."
Editor of "A Line o' Type or Two" in the Chicago Tribune until his death in 1921. Characteristic books are Motley Measures, 1913, and The So-Called Human Race, 1922. For complete bibliography, cf. Who's Who in America.
Sara Teasdale (Mrs. Ernst B. Filsinger)—poet.
Born at St. Louis, Missouri, 1884. Educated in private schools, St. Louis. Traveled in Europe and the Near East. Received prizes from the Poetry Society of America, 1916, 1918.
Sara Teasdale's love lyrics have been admired for their simplicity, feeling, and perfection of form. They need merely to be read to be appreciated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sonnets to Duse, and Other Poems. 1907. Helen of Troy and Other Poems. 1911. Rivers to the Sea. 1915. Love Songs. 1917. The Answering Voice: One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women. 1917. (Compilation.) Vignettes of Italy. 1919. (Songs.) Flame and Shadow. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Untermeyer.
Bookm. 42 ('15): 365 (portrait), 457. 47 ('18): 392 (Phelps). Forum, 65 ('21): 229. Lit. Digest, 58 (18'): 29 (portrait). New Repub. 15 ('18): 239. Poetry, 7 ('15): 148; 12 ('18): 264; 17 ('21): 272. Touchstone, 2 ('17): 310 (portrait).
Augustus Thomas—dramatist.
Born at St. Louis, Missouri, 1859. Son of the director of a theatre in New Orleans. As a boy often went to plays; began to write them at fourteen; at sixteen or seventeen, organized an amateur company. Educated in the St. Louis public schools. Page in the 41st Congress. Honorary A.M., Williams, 1914. Studied law two years; had six years of experience in railroading. Special writer, and illustrator on St. Louis, Kansas City, and New York newspapers.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Alabama. 1905. The Witching Hour. 1908. (Also, Dickinson, Chief Contemporary Dramatists, 1915.) As a Man Thinks. 1911. (Also, Baker, Modern American Plays. 1920.) Arizona. 1914. In Mizzoura. 1916. (Also, Moses, Representative Plays by American Dramatists, 1918-21, III.) For bibliography of unpublished plays, cf. Cambridge, III (IV), 771.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Boynton. Eaton, W.P. Plays and Players. 1916 —— —— At the New Theatre. 1910. Moses.
Bookm. 33 ('11): 353 (portrait), 354. Collier's, 44 ('09): 23. Cur. Lit. 39 ('05): 544; 46 ('09): 544. (Portraits.) Cur. Op. 64 ('18): 183. Everybody's, 25 ('11): 681 (portrait). Forum, 39 ('08): 366; 40 ('08): 43; 42 ('09): 575. Ind. 61 ('06): 737 (portrait). Outlook, 94 ('10): 212 (portrait); 110 ('15): 836, 865 (portrait). Scrib. M. 55 ('14): 275 (portrait). World's Work, 18 ('09): 11850 (portrait), 11882. (Van Wyck Brooks.)
Eunice Tietjens (Mrs. Cloyd Head)—poet.
Born at Chicago, 1884. Married Paul Tietjens, the composer, 1904; Cloyd Head, the writer, 1920. Associate editor of Poetry, 1914, 1916. War correspondent in France, 1917-8.
Mrs. Tietjens' Profiles from China is based upon her experience as an observer of life in China.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Profiles from China. 1917. Body and Raiment. 1919. Jake. 1921.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Untermeyer.
Poetry, 10 ('17): 326; 15 ('20): 272. Spec. 124 ('20): 315. See also Book Review Digest, 1917, 1919, 1921.
Elias Tobenkin—novelist.
Born in Russia, 1882. Came to the United States as a boy. A.B., University of Wisconsin, 1905; A.M., 1906. Specialized in German literature and philosophy. Extensive newspaper experience in Milwaukee, San Francisco, and Chicago. European correspondent of New York Tribune, 1918-9.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Witte Arrives. 1916. The House of Conrad. 1918. The Road. 1922.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 45 ('17): 300 (portrait), 303; 47 ('18): 340, 343. See also Book Review Digest, 1916, 1918.
(Frederic) Ridgely Torrence—poet, dramatist.
Born at Xenia, Ohio, 1875. Educated at Miami University and Princeton. Librarian in the Astor Library, 1897-1901, and Lenox Library, 1901-3. Assistant editor of The Critic, 1903-4, and associate editor of the Cosmopolitan, 1906-7.
Mr. Torrence's plays for a negro theatre are worth special study.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The House of a Hundred Lights. 1900. El Dorado, a Tragedy. 1903. Abelard and Heloise. 1907. (Poetic drama.) Granny Maumee; The Rider of Dreams; Simon the Cyrenian. Plays for a Negro Theatre. 1917.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Rittenhouse.
Atlan. 96 ('05): 712; 98 ('06): 333. Bk. Buyer, 20 ('00): 96 (portrait). Fortn. 86 ('06): 434. New Repub. 10 ('17): 325.
Horace Traubel—poet, biographer.
Born at Camden, New Jersey, 1873, of part Jewish parentage. Worked as newsboy, errand boy, printer's devil, proof reader, reporter, and editorial writer. Editor of various publications, including The Conservator. Died in 1919.
Mr. Traubel is best known for his association with Whitman as friend, secretary, and literary executor. When Whitman went to Camden in 1873, he became a member of the Traubel household; and Mr. Traubel's account of his life there is of the greatest value for the study of Whitman.
Although Traubel's poetry was strongly influenced by Whitman, he worked out a philosophy of his own which is worth study. An interesting comparison can be made of his ideas with Whitman's and with Edward Carpenter's (cf. Manly and Rickert, Contemporary British Literature).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Chants Communal. 1905. With Walt Whitman in Camden—a Diary. 1905 (Volume I). 1908 (Volume II). 1914 (Volume III). Optimos. 1910. (Poems.) Collects. 1915.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Karsner, D. Horace Traubel, His Life and Work. 1919. Untermeyer.
Am. M. 76 ('13): Nov., pp. 59 (portrait), 60. Arena, 40 ('08): 128 (portrait), 183. Cur. Lit. 39 ('05): 37 (portrait); 52 ('12): 590 (portrait). Forum, 50 ('13): 708. Freeman, 1 ('20): 46, 448. *Open Court, 34 ('20): 49, 87.
Jean Starr Untermeyer—poet.
Born at Zanesville, Ohio, 1886. Educated at Putnam Seminary, Zanesville, and special student at Columbia. In 1907, she married Louis Untermeyer (q.v.).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Growing Pains. 1918. Dreams out of Darkness. 1921.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Untermeyer. Poetry, 14 ('19): 47. (Amy Lowell.) See also Book Review Digest, 1918, 1921.
Louis Untermeyer—poet, critic.
Born in New York City, 1885. Educated at the De Witt Clinton High School, New York. An accomplished pianist and professional designer of jewelry. Married Jean Starr (q.v.), 1907. Business man. Associate editor of The Seven Arts (cf. Poetry, 9 ['16-'17]: 214). Contributing editor to The Liberator. Socialist.
Mr. Untermeyer's early verse was influenced by Heine, Housman, and Henley, especially the last; but he has broken away from them to an individual expression of social passions.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Younger Quire. 1911. First Love. 1911. Challenge. 1914. "—— and Other Poets." 1917. (Parodies.) These Times. 1917. The New Era in American Poetry. 1919. Including Horace. 1919. Modern American Poetry. 1919. (Anthology.) The New Adam. 1920. Modern British Poetry. 1920. (Anthology.)
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 47 ('18): 266. (Phelps.) Lond. Times, Nov. 17, 1921: 746. New Statesman, 18 ('21): 114. Outlook, 122 ('19): 644 (portrait). Poetry, 4 ('14): 203; 11 ('17): 157; 14 ('19): 159; 17 ('21): 212. Sat. Rev. 132 ('21): 737.
Carl Van Doren—critic.
Born at Hope, Illinois, 1885. A.B., University of Illinois, 1907; Ph.D., Columbia, 1911. Taught English at the University of Illinois, 1907-16; assistant professor, 1914-6. Associate in English at Columbia since 1916. Headmaster of The Brearley School, New York, 1916-9. Literary editor of The Nation, 1919—. Co-editor of the Cambridge History of American Literature. His most important books are The American Novel, 1921; Contemporary American Novelists, 1922.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Cur. Op. 71 ('21): 642. Dial, 71 ('21): 355. Nation, 113 ('21): 18. New Repub. 29 ('21): 106. See also Book Review Digest, 1921.
Henry van Dyke—man of letters.
Born at Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1852. Graduate of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 1869; A.B., Princeton, 1873, A.M., 1876; Princeton Theological Seminary, 1877; at the University of Berlin, 1877-9. Many honorary higher degrees and other marks of distinction. Ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, 1879. Pastor in Newport, Rhode Island, 1879-82, and in New York, 1883-1900, 1902, 1911. Professor of English literature at Princeton University, 1900—. American lecturer at the University of Paris, 1908-9. United States minister to The Netherlands, 1913-7.
Most of Mr. Van Dyke's numerous stories, essays, and poems are to be found in his Collected Works, 1920. His most recent works are: Camp-Fires and Guide Posts, 1921, and Songs Out of Doors, 1922.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Halsey.
Bookm. 30 ('10): 551; 38 ('13): 20. (Portraits.) Cent. 67 ('04): 579 (portrait). Critic, 42 ('03): 511, 516 (portrait). Cur. Lit. 28 ('00): 282. Nation, 104 ('17): 54. Outlook, 99 ('11): 704. R. of Rs. 41 ('10): 509 (portrait).
Hendrik Willem van Loon—man of letters.
Born at Rotterdam, Holland, 1882. A.B., Cornell, 1905; Ph.D., Munich, 1911. Associated Press correspondent in Russia during the revolution of 1906 and in various countries of Europe during the war. Lecturer on history and the history of art.
Mr. Van Loon has made a place in literature by The Story of Mankind, 1921. Cf. Book Review Digest, 1921.
Stuart Walker—dramatist.
Born at Augusta, Kentucky. A.B., University of Cincinnati, 1902. Studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Play-reader, actor, and stage manager with David Belasco (q.v.), 1909-14. Originator of the Portmanteau Theatre, 1914, and since 1915 his own producer.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Portmanteau Plays. 1917. (The Triplet, Nevertheless, The Medicine Show, Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil.) More Portmanteau Plays. 1919. (The Lady of the Weeping Willow Tree, The Very Naked Boy, Jonathan Makes a Wish.)
Portmanteau Adaptations. 1920. Sir David Wears a Crown. 1922.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
New Repub. 13 ('17): 222; 21 ('19): 60. See also Book Review Digest, 1919.
Eugene Walter—dramatist.
Born at Cleveland, Ohio, 1874. Educated in the public schools. Political and general news reporter on various newspapers in Cleveland, Detroit, Cincinnati, Seattle, and New York. Business manager of theatrical and amusement enterprises, ranging from minstrels and circuses to symphony orchestras and grand opera companies. Served in the Spanish War. His most successful play, The Easiest Way (1908), is printed by Dickinson, Chief Contemporary Dramatists, 1915, and by Moses, Representative Plays by American Dramatists, 1918-21, III.
For bibliography of unpublished plays, cf. Cambridge, III (IV), 772.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Eaton, W.P. At the New Theatre. 1910. Am. M. 71 ('10): 121 (portrait). Cur. Op. 62 ('17): 403. Drama, 6 ('16): 110.
Willard Austin Wattles—poet.
Born at Bayneville, Kansas, 1888. A.B., University of Kansas, 1909; A.M., 1911. Taught English in various schools; since 1914, at the University of Kansas.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sunflowers—A Book of Kansas Poems. 1014. (Compilation; includes some of his poems.) Lanterns in Gethsemane. 1918. The Funston Double-Track and Other Poems. 1919. Silver Arrows. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Untermeyer. Ind. 91 ('17): 59 (portrait). See also Book Review Digest, 1919.
Mary Stanbery Watts (Mrs. Miles Taylor Watts)—novelist.
Born at Delaware, Ohio, 1868. Educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Cincinnati, 1881-4.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Tenants. 1908. *Nathan Burke. 1910. The Legacy. 1911. Van Cleve. 1913. *The Rise of Jennie Cushing. 1914. From Father to Son. 1919. The House of Rimmon. 1922.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Overton.
Bookm. 27 ('08); 157 (portrait), 159; 31 ('10); 454 (portrait). Cur. Op. 56 ('14): 137 (portrait). Ind. 71 ('11): 532 (portrait). New Repub. 2 ('15): 152. (Robert Herrick.) See also Book Review Digest, 1916-20.
Henry Kitchell Webster—novelist.
Born at Evanston, Illinois, 1875. Ph.M., Hamilton College, 1897. Instructor in rhetoric at Union College, 1897-8. Since then he has given his time entirely to writing novels.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Short Line War. 1899. (With Samuel Merwin.) Calumet "K". 1901. (With Samuel Merwin.) The Real Adventure. 1916. The Painted Scene. 1916. (Short stories.) The Thoroughbred. 1917. An American Family. 1918. Mary Wollaston. 1920. Real Life. 1921.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 26 ('07): 4 (portrait only). Everybody's, 37 ('17): Nov., p. 16 (portrait). New Repub. 9 ('16): 133. See also Book Review Digest, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920.
Winifred Welles—poet.
Born at Norwich Town, Connecticut, 1893, and educated in the vicinity. Her first volume, The Hesitant Heart, 1920, attracted attention for its lyric beauty.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 51 ('20): 457. New Repub. 23 ('20): 156. See also Book Review Digest, 1920, 1921.
Rita Wellman (Mrs. Edgar F. Leo)—dramatist.
Born at Washington, D.C., 1890. Daughter of Walter Wellman, the airman and explorer. Educated in public schools and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Gentile Wife. 1919. Wings of Desire. 1919. (Novel.) Funiculi Funicula. 1919. (Mayorga.)
Edith (Newbold Jones) Wharton—novelist, short-story writer.
Born in New York City, 1862. Educated at home but spent much time abroad when she was young. Mrs. Wharton is a society woman and a great lover of outdoors and of animals. Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France.
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
1. Mrs. Wharton's friendship with Henry James and the derivation of her methods from his suggest an interesting comparison of the work of these two writers. For this comparison, books treating of similar material should be chosen; for example, Mrs. Wharton's The Custom of the Country or Madame de Treymes with Mr. James's Portrait of a Lady or The Ambassadors. The result will show that Mrs. Wharton, having an essentially different type of mind, has worked out an interesting set of variations of Mr. James's method.
2. Mrs. Wharton's novels of American social life should be studied and judged separately from her Italian historical novel (The Valley of Decision) and from her New England stories, Ethan Frome and Summer.
3. Two special phases of Mrs. Wharton's work which call for study are her management of supernatural effects in some of her short stories and her use of satire.
4. Her short stories offer a basis of comparison with those of Mrs. Gerould (q.v.), another disciple of Mr. James.
5. Has Mrs. Wharton enough originality and enough distinction to hold a permanent high place as a novelist of American manners?
6. Use the following criticisms by Mr. Carl Van Doren as the basis of a critical judgment of your own. Decide whether he is in all respects right:
From the first Mrs. Wharton's power has lain in the ability to reproduce in fiction the circumstances of a compact community in a way that illustrates the various oppressions which such communities put upon individual vagaries, whether viewed as sin, or ignorance, or folly, or merely as social impossibility.
She has always been singularly unpartisan, as if she recognized it as no duty of hers to do more for the herd or its members than to play over the spectacle of their clashes the long, cold light of her magnificent irony.
It is only in these moments of satire that Mrs. Wharton reveals much about her disposition: her impatience of stupidity and affectation and muddy confusion of mind and purpose; her dislike of dinginess; her toleration of arrogance when it is high-bred. Such qualities do not help her, for all her spare, clean movement, to achieve the march or rush of narrative; such qualities, for all her satiric pungency, do not bring her into sympathy with the sturdy or burly or homely, or with the broader aspects of comedy.... So great is her self-possession that she holds criticism at arm's length, somewhat as her chosen circles hold the barbarians. If she had a little less of this pride of dignity she might perhaps avoid her tendency to assign to decorum a larger power than it actually exercises, even in the societies about which she writes.... The illusion of reality in her work, however, almost never fails her, so alertly is her mind on the lookout to avoid vulgar or shoddy romantic elements.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Greater Inclination. 1899. The Touchstone. 1900. Crucial Instances. 1901. The Valley of Decision. 1902. Sanctuary. 1903. The Descent of Man, and Other Stories. 1904. Italian Villas and Their Gardens. 1904. Italian Backgrounds. 1905. *The House of Mirth. 1905. *Madame de Treymes. 1907. The Fruit of the Tree. 1907. The Hermit and the Wild Woman. 1908. A Motor-flight Through France. 1908. Artemis to Actaeon. 1909. Tales of Men and Ghosts. 1910. *Ethan Frome. 1911. The Reef. 1912. *The Custom of the Country. 1913. Fighting France. 1915. *Xingu and Other Stories. 1916. Summer. 1917. The Marne. 1918. In Morocco. 1920. French Ways and their Meaning. 1919. *The Age of Innocence. 1920. Glimpses of the Moon. 1922.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bjoerkman, E. Voices of Tomorrow. 1913. Cooper. Halsey. (Women.) Sedgwick, H.D. The New American Type. 1908. Underwood.
Atlan. 98 ('06): 217. Bookm. 33 ('11): 302 (portrait). Critic, 37 ('00): 103 (portrait), 173. Cur. Op. 58 ('15): 272. Dial, 68 ('20): 80. Harp. W. 49 ('05): 1750 (portrait). Lit. Digest, 55 ('17): Aug. 4, p. 37 (portrait). Lond. Times, Dec. 5, 1919: 710. Nation, 85 ('07): 514; 97 ('13); 404; 112 ('21): 40. (Carl Van Doren.) New Repub. 2 ('15): 40; 3 ('15): 20; 10 ('17): 50. New Statesman, 8 ('16): 234. No. Am. 182 ('06): 840; 183 ('06): 125 (continuation of previous article.) Outlook, 71 ('02): 209, 211 (portrait); 81 ('05): 719; 90 ('08): 698 (portrait), 702. Putnam's, 3 ('08): 590 (portrait). Quarterly R. 223 ('15): 182 (Percy Lubbock)=Liv. Age, 284 ('15): 604. Spec. 95 ('05): 470.
John Hall Wheelock—poet.
Born at Far Rockaway, Long Island, 1886. A.B., Harvard, 1908; studied at the University of Goettingen, 1909; University of Berlin, 1910. With Charles Scribner's Sons since 1911.
Strongly influenced by Whitman and Henley.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Human Fantasy. 1911. The Beloved Adventure. 1912. Love and Liberation. 1913. Dust and Light. 1919.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Untermeyer.
Lit. Digest, 55 ('17): Nov. 10, p. 29 (portrait). Poetry, 4 ('14): 163; 15 ('20): 343. See also Book Review Digest, 1919.
Stewart Edward White—novelist, short story writer.
Born at Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1873, of pioneer ancestry. At the age of twelve, went with his father to California and for four years lived mostly in the saddle. At the age of sixteen, went to high school in Michigan but spent much time in the woods, studying the birds and making a large collection of specimens. Ph.B., University of Michigan, 1895; A.M., 1903. Went to the Black Hills in a gold rush, but returned poor and went to Columbia to study law, 1896-7. He was influenced by Brander Matthews to write. Made his way into literature via book-selling and reviewing. Explored in the Hudson Bay wilderness and in Africa, spent a winter as a lumberman in a lumber camp, and finally went to the Sierras of California to live. He is a thorough woodsman.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Claim Jumpers. 1901. *The Blazed Trail. 1902. Conjuror's House. 1903. The Magic Forest. 1903. *The Silent Places. 1904. Blazed Trail Stories. 1904. Arizona Nights. 1907. The Riverman. 1908. *The Rules of the Game. 1909. The Cabin. 1910. The Land of Footprints. 1912. (Travel.) African Camp Fires. 1913. (Travel.) Gold. 1913. The Rediscovered Country. 1915. (Travel.) The Gray Dawn. 1915. The Forty-Niners. 1918. (Chronicles of America Series, vol. 25.) The Rose Dawn. 1920. The Killer. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 17 ('03): 308 (portrait); 31 ('10): 486 (portrait); 38 ('13): 9. Bookm. (Lond.) 27 ('05): 253; 46 ('14): 31 (portrait and illustrations). Mentor, 6 ('18): supp. no. 14 (portrait only). Outing, 43 ('03): 218 (portrait). World's Work, 6 ('03): 3695. (portrait).
Brand Whitlock—novelist, short story writer.
Born at Urbana, Ohio, 1869. Educated in public schools and privately. Honorary higher degrees. Newspaper experience in Toledo and Chicago, 1887-93. Clerk in office of Secretary of State, Springfield, Illinois, 1893-7. Studied law and was admitted to the bar, (Illinois, 1894; Ohio, 1897). Practiced in Toledo, Ohio, 1897-1905. Elected mayor as Independent candidate, 1905, 1907, 1909, 1911; declined fifth nomination. Minister (1913) and ambassador (1919) to Belgium and did distinguished war service there.
Mr. Whitlock has made his political experience the basis of his most interesting contributions to literature.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
*The 13th District. 1902. Her Infinite Variety. 1904. The Happy Average. 1904. *The Turn of the Balance. 1907. Abraham Lincoln. 1908. The Gold Brick. 1910. On the Enforcement of Law in Cities. 1910. The Fall Guy. 1912. Forty Years of It. 1914. Memories of Belgium Under the German Occupation. 1918. Belgium; a Personal Narrative. 1919.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Am. M. 69 ('10): 599, 601 (portrait); 82 ('16): Nov., p. 30. (portrait). Arena, 37 ('07): 560 (portrait), 623. Bookm. (Lond.) 56 ('19): 58 (portrait), 201. Cur. Op. 58 ('15): 167 (portrait). Everybody's, 38 ('18): Jan., p. 25 (portrait). Harper's, 129 ('14): 310. Lit. Digest, 51 ('15): 1240, 1352 (portrait). Nation, 105 ('17): 21. New Repub. 5 ('15): 86. No. Am. 192 ('10): 93. (Howells.) Outlook, 111 ('15): 652, 661 (portrait). R. of Rs. 43 ('11): 119; 52 ('15): 703 (portrait). Spec. 122 ('19): 795.
Margaret Widdemer (Mrs. Robert Haven Schauffler)—poet, novelist.
Born at Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Educated at home. Graduate of the Drexel Institute Library School, 1909. Her first published poem, "Factories," attracted wide attention for its humanitarian interest. In 1918, she shared with Carl Sandburg (q.v.) the prize of the Poetry Society of America. Her verse reflects the attitudes and interests of the modern woman.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Rose-Garden Husband. 1915. (Novel.) *Factories, with Other Lyrics. 1915. Why Not? 1915. (Novel.) The Wishing-Ring Man. 1917. (Novel.) The Old Road to Paradise. 1918. You're Only Young Once. 1918. (Novel.) The Board Walk. 1919. (Short stories.) I've Married Marjorie. 1920. (Novel.) Cross-Currents. 1921. The Year of Delight. 1921. (Novel.) A Minister of Grace. 1922. (Short stories.)
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Untermeyer. Bookm. 42 ('15): 458; 47 ('18): 392. Poetry, 7 ('15): 150; 14 ('19): 273. See also Book Review Digest, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921.
Kate Douglas Wiggin (Mrs. George C. Riggs)—Story-writer.
Born at Philadelphia, 1859. As a child, lived in New England and was educated at home, and at Abbott Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. Honorary Litt. D., Bowdoin, 1906. Studied to be a kindergarten teacher. Later, her family moved to Southern California and she organized the first free kindergarten for poor children on the Pacific coast. Her kindergarten experience is seen in her first two books. She has continued her interest in kindergarten work. Musician (piano and vocal); composer.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Birds' Christmas Carol. 1888. The Story of Patsy. 1889. *Timothy's Quest. 1890. Penelope's English Experiences. 1893. Penelope's Progress. 1898. Penelope's Experiences in Ireland. 1901. *Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. 1903. (Play, 1908.) Rose o' the River. 1905. New Chronicles of Rebecca. 1907. The Old Peabody Pew. 1907. (Play, 1917.) Mother Carey's Chickens. 1911. (Play, 1915.) The Story of Waitstill Baxter. 1913. Penelope's Postscripts. 1915. (Play.) Collected Works. 1917. Ladies-in-Waiting. 1919.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Halsey. (Women.) Harkins. (Women.) Cooper. Overton. Wiggin, K.D. The Girl and the Kingdom: Learning to Teach. Atlan. 90 ('02): 276. Bk. Buyer, 8 ('91): 285. Bookm. 18 ('03): 4 (portrait), 652; 20 ('05): 402 (portrait); 25 ('07): 226 (portrait), 304, 566; 32 ('10): 236 (portrait); 40 ('15): 478. Bookm. (Lond.) 38 ('10): 149 (portrait); 43 ('12): 9. Critic, 43 ('03): 388; 47 ('05): 197. (Portraits.) Cur. Lit. 30 ('01): 277. J. Educ. 83 ('16): 594 (portrait). Lamp, 29 ('05): 585. Lit. Digest, 63 ('19): 30 (portrait). Outlook, 75 ('03): 847 (portrait).
Percival Wilde—dramatist.
Born in New York City, 1887. B.S., Columbia, 1906. Banker, inventor, reviewer. Has been writing plays since 1912, and has had many produced in Little Theatres.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dawn, with The Noble Lord, The Traitor, A House of Cards, Playing with Fire, The Finger of God; One-Act Plays of Life Today. 1915. Confessional, and Other American Plays. 1916. (Confessional, The Villain in the Piece, According to Darwin, A Question of Morality, The Beautiful Story.) The Unseen Host, and Other War Plays. 1917. (The Unseen Host, Mothers of Men, Pawns, In the Ravine, Valkyrie.)
For Bibliography of unpublished plays, see Who's Who in America.
For Reviews, see the Book Review Digest, 1915-17.
Marguerite (Ogden Bigelow) Wilkinson (Mrs. James G. Wilkinson, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1883)—poet.
Compiler of Golden Songs of the Golden State (California anthology), 1917, and of New Voices, (studies in modern poetry with extensive quotations), 1919. Has also published several volumes of poetry.
Ben Ames Williams—novelist.
Born at Macon, Mississippi, 1889. A.B., Dartmouth, 1910. Newspaper writer until 1916.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
All the Brothers Were Valiant. 1919. The Sea Bride. 1919. The Great Accident. 1920. Evered. 1921.
For reviews, see Book Review Digest, 1919, 1920, 1921.
Jesse Lynch Williams (Illinois, 1871)—novelist, short-story writer.
First attracted attention with his stories of college life. For bibliography, see Who's Who in America.
William Carlos Williams—poet.
Born in 1883. Physician. Lives in Rutherford, New Jersey, where his first book was privately printed. Co-editor of Contract.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Poems. 1909. The Tempers. 1913. A Book of Poems, Al Que Quiere. 1917. Kora in Hell: Improvisations. 1920. Sour Grapes. 1921. Also in: Des Imagistes. 1914. Dial. (Passim.) Egoist. (Passim.) Little Review. (Passim.)
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Dial, 70 ('21): 352, 565; 72 ('22): 197. Poetry, 17 ('21): 329.
Harry Leon Wilson (Illinois, 1867)—novelist, dramatist.
His best-known novel is Ruggles of Red Gap, 1915. Collaborated with Booth Tarkington (q.v.) in the plays, The Man from Home, 1908, and Bunker Bean, 1912. For bibliography, see Who's Who in America.
Owen Wister—novelist.
Born at Philadelphia, 1860. A.B., Harvard, 1882; A.M., LL.B., 1888; honorary LL.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1907. Admitted to the Philadelphia bar, 1889. In literary work since 1891.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Dragon of Wantley—His Tail. 1892. Red Men and White. 1896. Lin McLean. 1898. (Short stories.) The Jimmy John Boss. 1900. *The Virginian. 1902. Philosophy 4. 1903. A Journey in Search of Christmas. 1904. *Lady Baltimore. 1906. The Seven Ages of Washington. 1907. (Biography.) Members of the Family. 1911. (Short stories.) The Pentecost of Calamity. 1915. (Germany in 1914.) The Straight Deal; or The Ancient Grudge. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Cooper. Bk. Buyer, 25 ('02): 199. Bookm. 27 ('08): 458, 465 (portrait). Critic, 41 ('02): 358. Cur. Lit. 33 ('02): 127 (portrait), 238. Dial, 59 ('15): 303. Ind. 60 ('06): 1159 (portrait). Lond. Times, July 4, 1902: 196. World's Work, 5 ('02): 2792, 2795 (portrait); 6 ('03): 3694.
Charles Erskine Scott Wood—poet.
Born at Erie, Pennsylvania, 1852. Graduate of U.S. Military Academy, 1874; Ph.B., LL.B., Columbia, 1883. Served in the U.S. Army, 1874-84, in various campaigns against the Indians. Admitted to the bar, 1884, in Portland, Oregon, and practiced until he retired, 1919. Painting, as well as writing, an avocation.
His knowledge of the Indians and of the desert appears in his principal work, a long poem in the manner of Whitman, The Poet in the Desert.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A Book of Tales, Being Myths of the North American Indians. 1901. A Masque of Love. 1904. *The Poet in the Desert. 1915. Maia. 1916. Circe. 1919.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Untermeyer. Cur. Op. 59 ('15): 268. Poetry, 6 ('15): 311. Sunset, 28 ('12): 232 (portrait).
George Edward Woodberry—poet, critic.
Born at Beverly, Massachusetts, 1855. A.B., Harvard, 1877. Honorary higher degrees. Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, 1877-8, 1880-2, and of comparative literature, Columbia, 1891-1904.
Mr. Woodberry has published many volumes of poetry and criticism. His critical writings were brought together in his Collected Essays (six volumes) in 1921. His most recent volume of poetry is The Roamer and Other Poems, 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bacon, E.M. Literary Pilgrimages, 1902. Halsey. Ledoux, L.V. The Poetry of George Edward Woodberry. 1917. Rittenhouse.
Bookm. 17 ('03): 336 (portrait); 47 ('18): 549. Critic, 43 ('03): 321 (portrait), 327. Cur. Lit. 33 ('02): 513; 42 ('07): 289 (portrait). Manchester Guardian Wkly., Jan. 20, 1922: 53. Outlook, 64 ('00): 875. Poetry, 3 ('13): 69; 11('17): 103. Weekly Review, 4 ('21): 273.
CLASSIFIED INDEXES
(Since the authors appear in the body of the book in alphabetical order, page references have been omitted in these indexes.)
I. POETS
Adams, Franklin P. Aiken, Conrad Akins, Zoe Aldington, Mrs. Richard ("H.D.") Anderson, Sherwood Arensberg, Walter Conrad Bangs, John Kendrick Benet, Stephen Vincent Benet, William Rose Bodenheim, Maxwell Brody, Alter Brown, Alice Burroughs, John Burton, Richard Bynner, Witter Cabell, James Branch Carman, Bliss Clark, Badger Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe Conkling, Grace Hazard Conkling, Hilda Corbin, Alice Crapsey, Adelaide Cromwell, Gladys Daly, T.A. Dargan, Olive Tilford Davies, Mary Carolyn Deutsch, Babette Eastman, Max Eliot, T.S. Erskine, John Faulks, Theodosia (Garrison) Ficke, Arthur Davison ("Anne Knish") Fletcher, John Gould Frost, Robert Fuller, Henry B. Gale, Zona Garland, Hamlin Gifford, Fannie Stearns Davis Giovannitti, Arturo Guiterman, Arthur Hagedorn, Hermann, Jr. Howells, William Dean Johns, Orrick Johnson, Robert Underwood Kilmer, Aline Kilmer, Joyce Knibbs, H.H. Kreymborg, Alfred Lindsay, Vachel Lowell, Amy Mackaye, Percy Markham, Edwin Marquis, Don Martin, Edward Sandford Masters, Edgar Lee Mifflin, Lloyd Millay, Edna St. Vincent Monroe, Harriet Moore, Marianne Morley, Christopher Neihardt, John G. Norton, Grace Fallow Oppenheim, James Peabody, Josephine Preston Piper, Edwin Ford Pound, Ezra Reese, Lizette Woodward Rice, Cale Young Ridge, Lola Riley, James Whitcomb Roberts, Charles George Douglas Robinson, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edwin Meade Sandburg, Carl Santayana, George Sarett, Lew R. Scollard, Clinton Scott, Evelyn Seeger, Alan Sterling, George Stevens, Wallace Stringer, Arthur Taylor, Bert Leston ("B.L.T.") Teasdale, Sara Tietjens, Eunice Torrence, Ridgely Traubel, Horace Untermeyer, Jean Starr Untermeyer, Louis Van Dyke, Henry Wattles, Willard Welles, Winifred Wheelock, John Hall Widdemer, Margaret Wilkinson, Marguerite Williams, William Carlos Wood, C.E.S. Woodberry, George Edward
SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF POETS
(Not included in this volume, but included in Untermeyer's Modern American Poetry, Monroe and Henderson's The New Poetry, or Others for 1916, 1917, 1919.)
Aldis, Mary. Monroe. Others, 1916. Barrett, Wilton Agnew. Monroe. Beach, Joseph Warren. Monroe. Branch, Anna Hempstead. Untermeyer. Britten, Rollo. Monroe. Brown, Robert Carleton. Others, 1916 Burr, Amelia Josephine. Untermeyer. Cannell, Skipwith. Monroe. Others, 1916, 1917. Carnevale, Emanuele. Others, 1919. Curran, Edwin. Untermeyer. Dodd, Lee Wilson. Monroe. D'Orge, Jeanne. Others, 1917, 1919. Driscoll, Louise. Monroe. Dudley, Dorothy. Monroe. Dudley, Helen. Monroe. Evans, Donald. Others, 1919. Frank, Florence Kiper. Monroe. Gilman, Charlotte P.S. Untermeyer. Glaenzer, Richard Butler. Monroe. Gorman, Herbert S. Untermeyer. Gould, Wallace. Others, 1919. Gregg, Frances. Others, 1916. Groff, Alice. Others, 1916. Guiney, Louise Imogen. Untermeyer. Hartley, Marsden. Others, 1916. Hartpence, Alanson. Others, 1916. Helton, Roy. Untermeyer. Herford, Oliver. Untermeyer. Holley, Horace. Monroe. Others, 1916. Hoyt, Helen. Monroe. Others, 1916, 1917. Iris, Scharmel. Monroe. Jennings, Leslie Nelson. Untermeyer. Johnson, Fenton. Others, 1919. Kemp, Harry. Untermeyer. Laird, William. Monroe. Lee, Agnes. Monroe. Leonard, William Ellery. Monroe. Untermeyer. Long, Lily A. Others, 1919. Loy, Mina. Others, 1916, 1917, 1919. McCarthy, John Russell. Others, 1916. McClure, John. Others, 1916. Michelson, Max. Monroe. Others, 1919. Morton, David. Untermeyer. Noguchi, Yone. Monroe. O'Brien, Edward J. Others, 1916. O'Neil, David. Others, 1917. O'Sheel, Shaemas. Untermeyer. Ramos, Edward. Others, 1916. Ray, Man. Others, 1916. Reed, John. Monroe. Reyher, Ferdinand. Others, 1916. Rodker, John. Others, 1916, 1917. Sainsbury, Hester. Others, 1916. Sanborn, Pitts. Others, 1916. Sanborn, Robert Alden. Others, 1916, 1917, 1919. Saphier, William. Others, 1919. Seiffert, Marjorie Allen. Others, 1919. Shanafelt, Clara. Monroe. Shaw, Frances. Monroe. Sherman, Frank Dempster. Untermeyer. Skinner, Constance Lindsay. Monroe. Syrian, Ajan. Monroe. Thomas, Edith Matilda. Untermeyer. Towne, Charles Hanson. Monroe. Upward, Allen. Monroe. White, Hervey. Monroe. Wilkinson, Florence. Monroe. Wolff, Adolph. Others. 1916. Wyatt, Edith. Monroe. Zorach, Marguerite. Others, 1916. Zorach, William. Others, 1916.
II. DRAMATISTS
Ade, George Akins, Zoe Austin, Mary Hunter Belasco, David Broadhurst, George H. Brown, Alice Bynner, Witter Churchill, Winston Cobb, Irvin S. Cook, George Cram Crothers, Rachel Dargan, Olive Tilford Dell, Floyd Dreiser, Theodore Ferber, Edna Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins Fuller, Henry B. Gale, Zona Glaspell, Susan Glass, Montague Goodman, Kenneth Sawyer Hamilton, Clayton Hecht, Ben Hergesheimer, Joseph Howells, William Dean James, Henry Kennedy Charles Rann Kreymborg, Alfred Lovett, Robert Morss Mackaye, Percy Marks, Jeannette Middleton, George Millay, Edna St. Vincent Moeller, Philip Morley, Christopher O'Neill, Eugene Peabody, Josephine Preston Pinski, David Rice, Cale Young Robinson, Edwin Arlington Sheldon, Edward Brewster Tarkington, Booth Thomas, Augustus Torrence, Ridgely Walker, Stuart Walter, Eugene Wellman, Rita Wilde, Percival Wilson, Harry Leon
III. NOVELISTS
Adams, Henry Aikman, H.G. Allen, James Lane Anderson, Sherwood Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Austin, Mary Hunter Bacheller, Irving Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam Beach, Rex Ellingwood Benet, Stephen Vincent Bjoerkman, Edwin Brooks, C.S. Brown, Alice Bullard, Arthur ("Albert Edwards") Burnett, Frances Hodgson Cabell, James Branch Cable, George W. Cahan, Abraham Cather, Willa Sibert Chester, George Randolph Churchill, Winston Cleghorn, Sarah Comfort, Will Levington Cournos, John Curwood, James Oliver Deland, Margaretta Wade Dell, Floyd Dos Passos, John Dreiser, Theodore "Edwards, Albert." See Bullard, Arthur Ferber, Edna Fisher, Dorothy Canfield Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fox, John, Jr. Frank, Waldo David Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins French, Alice ("Octave Thanet") Fuller, Henry B. Gale, Zona Garland, Hamlin Gerould, Katherine Fullerton Glasgow, Ellen Glaspell, Susan Grant, Robert Grey, Zane Hagedorn, Hermann Hardy, Arthur Sherburne Harris, Frank Harrison, Henry Sydnor Hecht, Ben Hergesheimer, Joseph Herrick, Robert Howells, William Dean Irwin, Wallace James, Henry Johnson, Owen Johnston, Mary King, Grace Kyne, Peter B. Lee, Jennette Lefevre, Edwin Lewis, Sinclair Lincoln, Joseph C. London, Jack Lovett, Robert Morss McCutcheon, George Barr Marks, Jeannette Martin, George Madden Martin, Helen Reimensnyder Masters, Edgar Lee Nathan, Robert Nicholson, Meredith Norris, Charles G. Norris, Kathleen Oppenheim, James O'Sullivan, Vincent Page, Thomas Nelson Perry, Bliss Poole, Ernest Quick, Herbert Rice, Alice Hegan Roberts, Charles G.D. Scott, Evelyn Sedgwick, Anne Douglas Sinclair, Upton Singmaster, Elsie Steele, Wilbur Daniel Stringer, Arthur Strunsky, Simeon Tarkington, Booth "Thanet, Octave." See French, Alice Tietjens, Eunice Tobenkin, Elias Watts, Mary S. Webster, Henry Kitchell Wharton, Edith White, Stewart Edward Whitlock, Brand Widdemer, Margaret Wiggin, Kate Douglas Williams, Ben Ames Williams, Jesse Lynch Wilson, Harry Leon Wister, Owen
IV. SHORT-STORY WRITERS
Ade, George Allen, James Lane Anderson, Sherwood Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman Austin, Mary Hunter Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam Bangs, John Kendrick Bercovici, Konrad Brown, Alice Cabell, James Branch Cable, George W. Cather, Willa Sibert Chester, George Randolph Cobb, Irvin S. Cohen, Octavus Roy Connolly, James Brendan Deland, Margaretta Wade Dreiser, Theodore Ferber, Edna Fisher, Dorothy Canfield Fitzgerald, F. Scott Ford, Sewell Fox, John Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins French, Alice ("Octave Thanet") Fuller, Henry B. Gale, Zona Garland, Hamlin Gerould, Katharine Fullerton Glaspell, Susan Glass, Montague Hergesheimer, Joseph Howells, William Dean Hurst, Fannie Irwin, Wallace James, Henry Johnson, Owen King, Grace Kyne, Peter B. Lee, Jennette Lefevre, Edwin London, Jack Martin, George Madden Martin, Helen Reimensnyder Matthews, Brander Oppenheim, James O'Sullivan, Vincent Page, Thomas Nelson Perry, Bliss Pinski, David Rice, Alice Hegan Singmaster, Elsie Steele, Wilbur Daniel "Thanet, Octave." See French, Alice Van Dyke, Henry Webster, Henry Kitchell Wharton, Edith White, Stewart Edward Widdemer, Margaret Wiggin, Kate Douglas Williams, Jesse Lynch Wister, Owen
V. ESSAYISTS
Adams, Henry Beebe, William Bradford, Gamaliel Brooks, Charles S. Broun, Heywood Burroughs, John Crothers, Samuel McChord Eastman, Max Erskine, John Harris, Frank Holliday, Robert Cortes Kilmer, Joyce Martin, Edward Sandford Matthews, Brander More, Paul Elmer Morley, Christopher Newton, Alfred Edward Nicholson, Meredith Pound, Ezra Repplier, Agnes Smith, Logan Pearsall Strunsky, Simeon Tarbell, Ida Van Dyke, Henry
VI. CRITICS
Aiken, Conrad Bjoerkman, Edwin Brooks, Van Wyck Burton, Richard Eastman, Max Eaton, Walter Prichard Eliot, T.S. Hackett, Francis Hamilton, Clayton Holliday, Robert Cortes Howells, William Dean Huneker, James Gibbons Lewisohn, Ludwig Littell, Philip Lovett, Robert Morss Lowell, Amy Matthews, Brander Mencken, H.L. More, Paul Elmer Nathan, George Jean Perry, Bliss Phelps, William Lyon Pound, Ezra Santayana, George Sherman, Stuart P. Untermeyer, Louis Van Doren, Carl Woodberry, George Edward
VII. WRITERS ON COUNTRY LIFE, NATURE, AND TRAVEL
Baker, Ray Stannard ("David Grayson") Beebe, William Burroughs, John Eaton, Walter Prichard "Grayson, David." See Baker, Ray Stannard Mills, Enos A. O'Brien, Frederick Roberts, Charles G.D. Seton, Ernest Thompson Sharp, Dallas Lore
VIII. HUMORISTS
Adams, Franklin P. Ade, George Bangs, John Kendrick Burgess, Gelett Cobb, Irvin S. Dunne, Finley Peter Leacock, Stephen Marquis, Don Martin, Edward Sandford Robinson, Edwin Meade Taylor, Bert Leston ("B.L.T.")
IX. "COLUMNISTS"
Adams, Franklin P. Broun, Heywood Daly, Thomas Augustine Marquis, Don Morley, Christopher Robinson, Edwin Meade Taylor, Bert Leston ("B.L.T.")
X. WRITERS OF BIOGRAPHY, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, HISTORY
Adams, Henry Antin, Mary Burnett, Frances Hodgson (The One I Knew the Best of All) Burroughs, John Comfort, Will Levington (Mid-stream) Du Bois, William E.B. Eastman, Charles Alexander Garland, Hamlin (A Son of the Middle Border; a Daughter of the Middle Border) Harris, Frank Howells, William Dean Huneker, James G. (Steeplejack) James, Henry Lindsay, Vachel (Prose) London, Jack (Martin Eden, John Barleycorn) Sinclair, Upton (Arthur Sterling) Tarbell, Ida Traubel, Horace Van Loon, Hendrik Willem (The Story of Mankind) Whitlock, Brand
XI. AUTHORS GROUPED ACCORDING TO PLACE OF BIRTH
(In some cases information as to birthplace could not be obtained.)
ARKANSAS Fletcher, John Gould
CALIFORNIA Atherton, Gertrude Belasco, David Frost, Robert Kyne, Peter B. London, Jack Norris, Charles G. Norris, Kathleen
CONNECTICUT Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam Burton, Richard Lee, Jennette Phelps, William Lyon Welles, Winifred
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (Washington) Johnson, Robert Underwood Wellman, Rita
GEORGIA Aiken, Conrad
IDAHO Pound, Ezra
ILLINOIS Austin, Mary Corbin, Alice (Chicago) Crothers, Rachel Crothers, Samuel McChord Dell, Floyd Dunne, Finley Peter (Chicago) Fuller, Henry Blake (Chicago) Lindsay, Vachel Marquis, Don Monroe, Harriet (Chicago) Neihardt, John G. Poole, Ernest (Chicago) Sandburg, Carl Sarett, Lew A. (Chicago) Sheldon, Edward Brewster Tietjens, Eunice (Chicago) Van Doren, Carl Webster, Henry Kitchell (Chicago) Williams, Jesse Lynch Wilson, Harry Leon
INDIANA Ade, George Dreiser, Theodore Holliday, Robert Cortes (Indianapolis) McCutcheon, George Barr Nathan, George Jean Nicholson, Meredith Riley, James Whitcomb Robinson, Edwin Meade Tarkington, Booth (Indianapolis)
IOWA Clark, Badger Cook, George Cram Ficke, Arthur Davison Glaspell, Susan Sherman, Stuart Pratt
KANSAS Fisher, Dorothy Canfield Masters, Edgar Lee Mills, Enos A. Wattles, Willard
KENTUCKY Allen, James Lane Cobb, Irvin S. Dargan, Olive Tilford Fox, John Martin, George Madden Rice, Alice Hegan Rice, Cale Young Walker, Stuart |
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