Contemporary American Literature Part 47

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 51 ('20): 472.

Cur. Op. 56 ('14): 376 (portrait); 68 ('20): 783 (portrait).

Freeman, 1 ('20): 449.

Nation, 110 ('20): 693.

New Repub. 24 ('20): 26.

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1913-6, 1920.

+Lloyd Mifflin+--poet.

Born at Columbia, Pennsylvania, 1846. Son of an artist. Educated at Was.h.i.+ngton Cla.s.sical Inst.i.tute and by tutors. Studied art with his father and in Germany and Italy. Began as a painter, but later turned to poetry.

Is best known for his sonnets, the form in which most of his poetry is written. These may be studied in his _Collected Sonnets_, 1905 (revised edition, 1907), although several volumes have been published since then.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Cur. Lit. 39 ('05): 106 (portrait).

Dial, 40 ('06): 125; 47 ('09): 100.

Nation, 81 ('05): 17, 508.

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1905.

+Edna St. Vincent Millay+--poet, dramatist.

Born at Rockland, Maine, 1892. A.B., Va.s.sar, 1917. Connected with the Provincetown players both as dramatist and as actress.

Miss Millay's first poem, "Renascence," was published in _The Lyric Year_, 1912.

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

1. The poems need to be read aloud to give the full effect of their pa.s.sion and lyric beauty.

2. Compare Miss Millay's navete with that of Blake. Do you find suggestions of philosophy behind it or sheer emotion?

3. Does Miss Millay's later work show growth toward greatness or toward sophisticated cleverness?

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Renascence and other Poems. 1917.

A Few Figs from Thistles: Poems and Four Sonnets. 1920.

Aria da Capo. 1920. (Play; published in _The Monthly Chapbook_, 1920.) Second April. 1921.

The Lamp and the Bell. 1921. (Play.)

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Untermeyer.

Freeman, 1 ('20): 307; 4 ('21): 189.

Poetry, 13 ('18): 167; 19 ('21): 151.

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1918, 1921.

+Enos A(bijah) Mills+--Nature writer.

Born near Kansas City, Kansas, 1870. Self-educated. Worked on a ranch fourteen years. Foreman in a mine. Went to the Rocky Mountains early in life. Built a home on Long's Peak, Colorado, 1886. Has explored the Rocky Mountains extensively, alone, on foot, and without firearms. Colorado "snow observer" for Government, 1907, 1908.

Mr. Mills has done valuable work for the protection of wild animals and flowers and for the establishment of national parks. His work belongs with that of Th.o.r.eau, Burroughs, and Muir (by whom he was influenced to continue it) for its freshly observed Nature content.

Among his best-known books are, perhaps, _The Story of a Thousand Year Pine_, 1914, and _The Story of Scotch_, 1916 (dog story).

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

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 51 ('20): 103.

Lit. Digest, 55 ('17): July 14, p. 44.

Sunset, 38 ('17): 40 (portrait).

+Philip Moeller+--dramatist.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Helena's Husband. 1916.

Madame Sand; a Biographical Comedy. 1917.

Five Somewhat Historical Plays. 1918. (Helena's Husband; A Road-house in Arden; Sisters of Susannah; The Little Supper; Pokey.) (Burlesques.) Two Blind Beggars and One Less Blind; a Tragic Comedy in One Act. 1918.

Moliere; a Romantic Play in Three Acts. 1919.

Sophie, a Comedy. 1919. (Prologue by Carl Van Vechten.)

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

See _Book Review Digest_, 1918, 1920.

+Harriet Monroe+ (Illinois)--critic, poet.

Editor of _Poetry_, 1912--. Compiler of _The New Poetry; an Anthology_ (with Alice Corbin, q.v.), 1917. For bibliography of her poems, cf. _Who's Who in America_.