Contemporary American Literature Part 29

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Boynton.

Harkins.

Pattee.

Arena, 34 ('05): 112 (portrait), 206.

Bookm. 31 ('10): 226 (portrait), 309.

Chaut. 64 ('11): 322 (portrait).

Cur. Lit. 53 ('12): 589.

Cur. Op. 63 ('17): 412.

Lit. Digest, 55 ('17): Sept. 15, p. 28 (portrait).

No. Am. 196 ('12): 523.

R. of Rs. 25 ('02): 701 (portrait).

Sewanee R. 27 ('19): 411.

Touchstone, 2 ('17): 322.

World's Work, 6 ('03): 3695.

+Katharine Fullerton Gerould (Mrs. Gordon Hall Gerould)+--short-story writer, novelist, essayist.

Born at Brockton, Ma.s.sachusetts, 1879. A.B., Radcliffe College, 1900; A.M., 1901. Reader in English at Bryn Mawr College, 1901-10, except 1908-9 which she spent in England and France.

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

1. Mrs. Gerould belongs to the school of Henry James, but shows marked individuality in her themes and in her dramatic power. A comparison of some of her short stories with stories by Mr. James (q.v.) and by Mrs.

Wharton (q.v.) is illuminating for the powers and limitations of all three.

2. Another interesting comparison is between Mrs. Gerould's stories and the collection ent.i.tled _Bliss_ by the English writer, Katherine Mansfield (Mrs. J. Middleton Murry); cf. Manly and Rickert, _Contemporary British Literature_.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

*Vain Oblations. 1914.

*The Great Tradition. 1915.

Hawaii, Scenes and Impressions. 1916.

A Change of Air. 1917.

Modes and Morals. 1919. (Essays.) Lost Valley. 1921. (Novel.)

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 44 ('16): 31.

Cur. Lit. 58 ('15):353.

New Repub. 22 ('20): 97.

No. Am. 211 ('20): 564. (Lawrence Gilman.) See also _Book Review Digest_, 1914-17, 1920.

+Fannie Stearns Davis Gifford (Mrs. Augustus McKinstry Gifford)+--poet.

Born at Cleveland, Ohio, 1884. A.B., Smith College, 1904. Taught English at Kemper Hall, Kenosha, Wisconsin, 1906-7.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Myself and I. 1913.

Crack o' Dawn. 1915.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 47 ('18): 388.

Poetry, 2 ('13): 225; 6 ('15): 45.

+Arturo Giovannitti+--poet.

Born in the Abruzzi, Italy, 1884, of a family of good social standing, his father and one of his brothers being doctors, and another brother a lawyer. Educated in a local Italian college. Came to America in 1900, full of enthusiasm for democracy. Worked in a coal mine. Later, studied at Union Theological Seminary. Conducted Presbyterian missions in several places.

In 1906, he became a socialist and one of the leaders of the I.W.W.

During the Lawrence strikes he preached the doctrine of Syndicalism and was arrested on the charge of inciting to riot. He also organized relief work for the strikers.

On an Italian newspaper; editor of _Il Proletario_, a socialist paper.

His first speech in English was made at the time of his trial and produced a powerful effect upon his audience. During his imprisonment, he studied English literature and wrote poems, of which the most famous is "The Walker." His chief concern is with the submerged, and he writes from actual experience of having been "one of those who sleep in the park."

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

1. What are the main features of the social creed at the root of Giovannitti's poetry?

2. Is he a poet or a propagandist? Test his sincerity; his pa.s.sion; his truth to experience.

3. What are his limitations as thinker and as poet?

4. Compare and contrast his work with Whitman's in ideas and in form.

5. Do you find marks of greatness in him?

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Arrows in the Gale. 1914. (With introduction by Helen Keller.) Also in: Others. 1919.