Contemporary American Literature Part 25

The Squirrel-Cage. 1912.

Hillsboro People. 1915. (Short stories, with poems by Sarah Cleghorn, q.v.) *The Bent Twig. 1915.

The Real Motive. 1916.

Fellow-Captains. 1916. (With Sarah Cleghorn, q.v.) (Essays.) Self-Reliance. 1916.

Understood Betsy. 1917.

Home Fires in France. 1918.

The Day of Glory. 1919.

*The Br.i.m.m.i.n.g Cup. 1921.

Rough-Hewn. 1922.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Overton.

Bookm. 42 ('16): 599; 48 ('18): 105; 53 ('21): 453.

Dial, 65 ('18): 320.

Lit. Digest, 69 ('21): June 11, p. 57.

New Repub. 5 ('16): 314.

R. of Rs. 45 ('12): 759 (portrait).

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1915, 1917-9, 1921.

+F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald+--novelist, short-story writer.

Born in 1896.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

This Side of Paradise. 1920.

Flappers and Philosophers. 1920. (Short stories.) The Beautiful and d.a.m.ned. 1922.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Lond. Times, June 23, 1921: 402.

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1920.

+John Gould Fletcher+--poet, critic.

Born at Little Rock, Arkansas, 1886. Studied at Phillips Academy, Andover, Ma.s.sachusetts, and at Harvard, 1903-7. Has lived much in England.

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

1. Read the prefaces to _Irradiations_ and _Goblins and PaG.o.das_ for Mr.

Fletcher's theory of poetry before you read the poems themselves. Has he succeeded in making the arts of painting and music do service to poetry?

2. After reading the poems, consider the justice or injustice of Mr.

Aiken's criticism: "It is a sort of absolute poetry, a poetry of detached waver and brilliance, a beautiful flowering of language alone--a parthenogenesis, as if language were fertilized by itself rather than by thought or feeling. Remove the magic of phrase and sound and there is nothing left: no thread of continuity, no thought, no story, no emotion.

But the magic of phrase and sound is powerful, and it takes one into a fantastic world."

3. Do you find any poems to which the quotation given above does not apply? Are these of more or of less value than the others?

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Irradiations--Sand and Spray. 1915.

Goblins and PaG.o.das. 1916.

j.a.panese Prints. 1917.

The Tree of Life. 1918.

Breakers and Granite. 1921.

Paul Gauguin; His Life and Art. 1921.

For bibliography of editions out of print, see _A Miscellany of American Poetry_. 1920.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Lowell.

Untermeyer.

Bookm. 41 ('15): 236 (portrait).

Dial, 66 ('19): 189.

Egoist, 2 ('15): 73, 79, 177 (portrait); 3 ('16): 173.

New Repub. 3 ('15): 75, 154, 204; 5 ('15): 280; 9 ('16): supp. p. 11.

Poetry, 7 ('15): 44, 88; 9 ('16): 43; 13 ('19); 340; 19 ('21): 155.

Sat. Rev. 126 ('18): 1039.

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1915, 1918, 1919, 1921.

+Sewell Ford+ (Maine, 1868)--short-story writer.

The creator of Shorty McCabe and Torchy. For bibliography, see _Who's Who in America_.

+John (William) Fox, Jr.+--novelist.

Born in Kentucky, 1862, of a pioneer family. Pupil of James Lane Allen (q.v.), whose influence on his work should be noted. Also a.s.sociated in friends.h.i.+p with Roosevelt and with Thomas Nelson Page. War correspondent during the Spanish and j.a.panese wars. Died in 1919.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

*The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. 1903.