| Description |
1628 unnumbered pages including illustrations, plates. ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Various pagings. |
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Contains three novels, a play, short stories and poems. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Alice Adams / Booth Tarkington -- Ring around the rosie / Sinclair Lewis -- The killers / Ernest Hemingway -- Archy and Mehitabel / Don Marquis -- Big blonde / Dorothy Parker -- The new fable of Susan / George Ade -- But the one on the right / Dorothy Parker -- Thirty-seven / Patricia Collinge -- Come, ye disconsolate / Charles MacArthur -- But for the grace of God / Thyra Samter Winslow -- The Vanderbilt convention / Frank Sullivan -- Marriage of convience / John Mosher -- The stranger / Emily Hahn -- The giant-killer / T. H. Wenning -- The title / Arthur Kober -- Louis dot dope / Robert Benchley -- Miss Gulp / Nunnally Johnson -- My silver dress / Elinor Wylie -- The faithful wife / Morley Callaghan -- Essayage / Christopher Morley -- Autumn / Robert Nathan -- Champion / Ring Lardner -- Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson -- Children of darkness / Edwin Justus Mayer -- Papago wedding / Mary Austin -- The killer / Stewart Edward White -- Selection from "Only Yesterday" / Frederick Lewis Allen -- Mr. Flood's Party / Edward Arlington Robinson -- Selection from "Tristram' / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The runaway / Robert Frost -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Whiffs of the Ohio River at Cincinnati / Carl Sandburg --The long hill / Sara Teasdale -- Arcturus in autumn / Sara Teasdale --Song of the moderns / John Gould Fletcher -- Brahma / John Gould Fletcher -- Leda / H. D. -- The fawn in the snow / William Rose Benet -- The woodcutter's wife / William Rose Benet -- Continent's end / Robinson Jeffers -- Bixby's landing / Robinson Jeffers -- The eagle and the mole / Elinor Wylie -- Let no charitable hope / Elinor Wylie -- Gerontion / T. S. Elliot -- Here lies a lady / John Crowe Ransom -- And already the minutes / Conrad Aiken -- And in the hanging garden / Conrad Aiken -- Love is not all; It is not meat nor drink / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Oh, sleep forever in the Latmian Cave / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- You, Andrew Marvell / Archibald MacLeish -- Hasbrouck and the rose / Phelps Putnam -- O thou to whom the musical white spring / E. E. Cummings -- Medusa / Louise Bogan -- Invocation to John Brown's body / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Quiet / Leonie Adams --Send forth the high falcon / Leonie Adams -- Emblems / Allen Tate -- Response of rivers / Hart Crane -- Atlantis / Hart Crane. |
| Subject |
American literature.
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American literature. |
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American literature -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Added Author |
Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.
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