Contemporary American Literature Part 18

Other plays are: The Athenian Women. 1917.

Spring. 1921. (Cf. _Literary Review_ of the _New York Evening Post_, Feb. 11, 1922, p. 419.)

For complete bibliography, see _Who's Who in America_.

+Alice Corbin (Mrs. William Penhallow Henderson)+--poet, critic.

Born at St. Louis, Missouri. Lived many years in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which has furnished material for many of her poems. a.s.sociate editor of _Poetry_ since its foundation in 1912.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Spinning Woman of the Sky. 1912. (Poems.) The New Poetry, An Anthology. 1917. (Compiled with Harriet Monroe, q.v.) Red Earth. 1920.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 47 ('18): 391.

Freeman, 4 ('22): 468.

New Repub. 28 ('21): 304.

Poetry, 9 ('16-'17): 144, 232.

+John Cournos+--novelist.

Mr. Cournos' studies of the immigrant in America in _The Mask,_ 1920, and _The Wall_, 1921, attracted attention.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 51 ('20): 76.

Dial, 68 ('20): 496.

Freeman, 4 ('21): 238.

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1920, 1921.

+Adelaide c.r.a.psey+--poet.

Born at Rochester, New York, 1878. A.B., Va.s.sar, 1902. Taught English at Kemper Hall, Kenosha, Wisconsin, 1903. In 1905, studied archaeology in Rome. Instructor in poetics at Smith College, 1911; but stopped teaching because of failing health. Died at Saranac Lake, 1914.

She had begun an investigation into the structure of English verse, which she was unable to finish. Her poems were nearly all written after her breakdown in 1913, and reflect the tragic experience through which she was pa.s.sing.

Some of them are written in a form of her own invention, the "cinquain"

(five unrhymed lines, having two, four, six, eight, and two syllables).

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

1. Miss c.r.a.psey's theories of versification should be remembered in studying her forms.

2. What is to be said of her verbal economy?

3. A comparison of her verses with those of Emily d.i.c.kinson has been suggested. Carried out in detail, it suggests interesting points of difference as well as of resemblance.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Poems. 1915.

Study in English Metrics. 1918.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Untermeyer.

Bookm. 50 ('20): 496.

Poetry, 10 ('17): 316.

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1916, 1918.

+Gladys Cromwell+--poet.

Born in New York City, 1885. Educated in New York private schools and lived much abroad. In 1918, with her twin sister, she went into Red Cross Canteen work and was stationed at Chalons. As a result of depression due to nerve strain, both sisters committed suicide by jumping overboard from the steamer on which they were coming home. For their War service the French Government later awarded them the Croix de Guerre. Miss Cromwell's _Poems_ in 1919 divided with Mr. Neihardt's (q.v.) _Song of Three Friends_ the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Gates of Utterance. 1915.

Poems. 1919.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Ath. 1920, 1: 289.

Bookm. 51 ('20): 216.

Dial, 68 ('20): 534.

Lond. Times, April 15, 1920: 243.

New Repub. 18 ('19): 189; 22 ('20): 65.

Poetry, 13 ('19): 326; 16 ('20): 105.

+Rachel Crothers+--dramatist.

Born at Bloomington, Illinois. Graduate of the Illinois State Normal School, Normal, Illinois, 1892.