Theodore Dreiser / John Chamberlain -- Upton Sinclair / Robert Cantwell -- Willa Cather / Lionel Trilling -- Can Wyck Brooks / Bernard Smith -- Carl Sandburg / Newton Arvin -- Sherwood Anderson / Robert Morss Lovett -- H. L. Mencken / Louis Kronenberger -- Sinclair Lewis / Robert Cantwell -- Eugene O'Neill / Lionel Trilling -- The James Branch Cabell period / Peter Monro Jack -- Two poets: Jeffers and Millay / Hildegarde Flanner -- Dos passos: Poet against the world / Malcomlm Cowley -- Homage to Hemingway / John Peale Bishop -- Thomas Wolfe / Hamilton Basso