Contemporary American Literature - Part 23
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Part 23

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Child of the Amazons and Other Poems. 1913.

The Enjoyment of Poetry. 1913.

Journalism Versus Art. 1916.

Understanding Germany. 1916.

The Colors of Life. 1918.

The Sense of Humor. 1921.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Untermeyer.

Countryside M. 23 ('16): 273 (portrait).

Cur. Op. 55 ('13): 126 (portrait).

Dial, 65 ('18): 611 (Louis Untermeyer); 66 ('19): 146. (Arturo Giovannitti.) Harp. W. 57 ('13): June 7, p. 20.

Lit. Digest, 54 ('17): 71 (portrait).

New Repub. 9 ('17): 303. (Hackett.) Poetry, 2 ('13): 140; 3 ('13): 31; 13 ('19): 322.

Survey, 30 ('13): 489.

+Walter Prichard Eaton+--critic, essayist.

Born at Malden, Ma.s.sachusetts, 1878. A.B., Harvard, 1900. Dramatic critic on the _New York Tribune_, 1902-7, and the _New York Sun_, 1907-8, and on the _American Magazine_, 1909-18.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The American Stage of Today. 1908.

At the New Theatre and Others. 1910.

Barn Doors and Byways. 1913.

The Man Who Found Christmas. 1913.

The Idyl of Twin Fires. 1915.

New York. 1915.

Plays and Players. 1916.

Green Trails and Upland Pastures. 1917.

Newark. 1917.

Echoes and Realities. 1918. (Poems.) In Berkshire Fields. 1919.

On the Edge of the Wilderness. 1920.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 28 ('09): 412; 29 ('09): 473. (Portraits).

Country Life, 25 ('14): Jan., p. 110 (portrait).

Lit. Digest, 53, ('16): 1711 (portrait).

+"Albert Edwards."+ See _Arthur Bullard_.

+T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot+--poet, critic.

Born at St. Louis, Missouri, 1888. A.B., Harvard, 1909; A.M., 1910.

Studied at the Sorbonne, Paris, and at Merton College, Oxford. Teacher and lecturer in London since 1913.

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

1. Is Mr. Eliot's poetry derived from a keen sense of life experienced or from literature? What echoes of earlier poets do you find in his work?

2. Does the adjective _distinguished_ apply to his work? What are the sources of his distinction? What evidences of fresh vision of old things do you find? of unexpected and true a.s.sociations and contrasts? of a delicate sense for essential details that make a picture? of the power of suggestive condensation? of ability to get an emotional effect through irony?

3. Consider the following quotation from Mr. Eliot as illuminative of his method of work: "The contemplation of the horrid or sordid by the artist is the necessary and negative aspect of the impulse toward beauty."

4. It is interesting to make a special study of Mr. Eliot's management of verse.

5. What, if any, temperamental defect is likely to interfere with his development?

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Poems. 1920.

The Sacred Wood. Essays on Poetry and Criticism. 1921.

The Waste Land. 1922.

Also in: The Little Review, 4 ('17): May, June, September.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Ath. 1920, 1: 239.

Dial, 68 ('20): 781; 70 ('21): 336.

Freeman, 1 ('20): 381; 2 ('21): 593. (Conrad Aiken.) Lond. Times, June 13, 1919: 322; Dec. 2, 1920: 795.

Nation, 110 ('20): 856.

Poetry, 10 ('17): 264; 16 ('20): 157; 17 ('21): 345.

New Statesman, 16 ('21): 418.

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1920, 1921.

+John Erskine+--essayist, poet.

Born in New York City, 1879. A.B., Columbia, 1900; A.M., 1901; Ph.D., 1903. Taught English at Amherst and Columbia. Since 1916, professor at Columbia. Co-editor of the _Cambridge History of American Literature_.