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:ONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN, AMERICAN LITERATURE
fERALDS OF CHANGE
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I. JAMES HUNEKER
A Visit to Walt Whitman
II.
III.
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GAMALIEL BRADFORD
William Cowper
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ELLEN GLASGOW
From The Romantic Comedians.
34
EDWIN A.RLINGTON ROBINSON
39
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The Clerks.
Zola .
Richard Cory
Cassandra .
Mr. Flood's Party.
Isaac and Archibald
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THEODORE DREISER
Old Rogaum and His Theresa
From A Book about Myself
50
64
POETIC INNOVATION
I. EZRA POUND
II.
III.
The Eyes .
lone, Dead the Long Year
Portrait d'une Femme.
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JOHN GOULD FLETCHER
Skyscrapers.
From Down the Mississippi
Mexican Quarter .
Exit.
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HILDA DOOLITTLE (H. D.)
Evening.
Cuckoo Song .
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EDGAR LEE MASTE RS
Mournin' for Religion
Johnny Appleseed .
The Lake Boats
My Light with Yours .
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AMY LOWELL
Summer Night Piece
Purple Grackles
Patterns.
From Can Grande's Castle
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CARL SANDBURG
Chicago.
A Fence
Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind
Cheap Blue.
From Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years
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VACHEL LINDSAY
General William Booth Enters into Heaven
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
The Congo.
The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky
A Net to Snare the Moonlight .
From Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty.
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NEW SINGING IN OLD METERS
I.
WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD
The Vaunt of Man.
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II. SARA TEASDALE
Barter
Pierrot .
I Have Loved Hours at Sea
Compensation .
There Will Come Soft Rains.
The Flight .
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III. JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
The Undiscovered Country
The Heart Grows Old
The Masque of Being .
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100
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IV. EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
Elegy.
I Know I Am but Summer to Your Heart .
Now by This Moon, before This Moon Shall Wane
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V. ELINOR WYLIE
Let No Charitable Hope
Castilian.
Hymn to Earth
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102
~OBERT FROST
Mending Wall .
The Road Not Taken.
The Sound of the Trees
The Black Cottage.
Once by the Pacific .
~ R I TIC ISM
0 F THE AM E RIC A N
I. RANDOLPH BOURNE
Universal Service and Education
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109
S C ENE
II. VAN WYCK BROOKS
From America's Coming-oj-Age
III.
IV.
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ZONA GALE
From Birth.
Bill
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124
VI. BEN HECHT
The Sentimentalist
VII. LEWIS MUMFORD
The Defeat of Romanticism in American Architecture
H. L.
114
ERNEST POOLE
From The Harbor.
V. FLOYD DELL
The Ex-Villager's Confession.
VIII.
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
The Jelly-Bean.
143
MENCKEN
The United States, the Greatest Show on Earth
Paul Elmer More .
The Novel.
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STUART P. SHERMAN
166
The Emotional Discovery of America
Like a Fine Old English Gentleman: The Essays of Edmund
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SHERWOOD ANDERSON
I Want to Know Why
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SINCLAIR LEWIS
From Main Street .
From Babbitt
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THE RENEWED INTEREST IN REGIONAL
LIFE
I.
JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER
From Balisand .
200
II. RUTH SUCKOW
Just Him and Her.
III.
IV.
V.
202
JAMES BOYD
From Drums
209
DU BOSE HEYWARD
From Mamba's Daughters
212
LYLE SAXON
Crevasse.
216
VI.
JULIA PETERKIN
From Scarlet Sister Mary
VII. ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS
From The Great Meadow
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227
WILLA CATHER
Paul's Case .
231
WILBUR DANIEL STEELE
Blue Murder
.
247
EUGENE O'NEILL
Bound East for Cardiff
262
LITERARY AND MUSICAL INTERPRETATION
I.
HENRY SEIDEL CANBY
On Reviewing .
The Two Americas
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273
II. MAX EASTMAN
The Realm of Literary Truth
275
Ill. EDMUND WILSON
Symbolism
286
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IV. PAUL ROSENFELD
Moussorgsky
• 298
POETIC SENSIBILITY AND MENTAL
QUESTING
I. WALLACE STEVENS
Earthy Anecdote .
The Worms at Heaven's Gate
Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb
II.
CONRAD AIKEN
Music I Heard with You.
All Lovely Things Will Have an Ending
From Senlin: A Biography
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III. JOHN CROWE RANSOM
Piazza Piece
Somewhere Is Such a Kingdom
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IV. ARCHIBALD MACLEISH
Memory Green .
Not Marble Not the Gilded Monuments
From The Hamlet of A. MacLeish
30a
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T. S. ELIOT
Portrait of a Lady
Gerontion
Journey of the Magi
Animula.
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ROBINSON JEFFERS
Ode on Human Destinies .
Boats in a Fog .
Gale in April .
To the Stone-Cutters
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SATIRICAL JESTING
I.
RING LARDNER
Some Like Them Cold
324
II.
CARL VAN VECHTEN
From Parties .
337
III. ROBERT BENCHLEY
Throwing Back the European Offensive
IV. DOROTHY PARKER
Inventory
Epitaph for a Darling Lady .
Afternoon .
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FANTASY AND REFLECTIVE THOUGHT
I.
II.
III.
SIMEON STRUNSKY
Knights at the Cross Roads
344
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
On Visiting Bookshops
346
ROBERT NATHAN
From The Puppet Master.
From The Woodcutter's Bouse
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350
JAMES BRANCH CABELL
The Lady of All Our Dreams
354
SCHOLARSHIP, SPECULATION, SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY
I.
II.
III.
CHARLES HOMER HASKINS
Books and Libraries in Europe of the Twelfth Century
362
CARL BECKER
Mr. Wells and the New History
370
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CHARLES A. BEARD
The Role of Government in Modern Civilization .
IV. JOHN DEWEY
Education as Reconstruction .
Psychological Doctrine and Philosophical Teaching
V. WALTER LIPPMANN
Gospels of Science .
The Choice of a Way.
The Religion of the Spirit
VI.
WILLIAM BEEBE
Hoatzins at Home .
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393 .
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408
ANOTHER GENERATION OF POETS
I.
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET
From John Brown's Body
415
MALCOLM COWLEY
Hickory Cove .
Winter: Two Sonnets .
Leander ..
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III. LEoNIE ADAMS
Caryatid.
Lullaby .
The River in the Meadows
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IV.
V.
HART CRANE
From The Bridge
GEORGE DILLON
What Artifice .
From Anatomy of Death .
Elegy
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ANOTHER GENERATION OF NOVELISTS
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
JOHN DOS PASSOS
From Manhattan Transfer
From The 42nd Parallel
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428
EVELYN SCOTT
From The Wave
431
LOUIS BROMFIELD
From Early Autumn
433
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The Killers .
439
THORNTON WILDER
From The Bridge of San Luis Rey
,.
445
WILLIAM FAULKNER
A Rose for Emily
448
GLENWAY WESCOTT
The Dove Came Down
454
NOTES.
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INDEX
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