Contemporary American Literature Part 42

8. Do you judge that Mr. Lindsay is likely to write much greater poetry than he has. .h.i.therto produced?

9. Mr. Lindsay's drawings are worth study for comparison with his poems.

10. Compare Mr. Lindsay's development of the idea of the "poem game" with the "poem dance" of Bliss Carman (q.v.).

11. Consider Mr. Lindsay as the "poet of democracy." What is he likely to do for the people? for poetry?

BIBLIOGRAPHY

General William Booth Enters into Heaven, and Other Poems. 1913.

Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. 1914. (Prose.) The Congo and Other Poems. 1914.

The Art of the Moving Picture. 1913. (Prose.) A Handy Guide for Beggars. 1916. (Prose.) The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems. 1917.

The Daniel Jazz and Other Poems. 1920.

The Golden Book of Springfield. 1920. (Prose.) The Golden Whales of California. 1920.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Boynton.

Untermeyer.

Am. M. 74 ('12): 422 (portrait).

Ath. 1919, 2: 1334.

Bookm. 46 ('18): 575; 47 ('18): 125 (Phelps); 53 ('21): 525 (Morley).

Bookm. (Lond.) 57 ('20): 178.

Cent. 102 ('21): 638.

Chapbook, 1-2, May, 1920: 19.

Collier's, 51 ('13): 7 (portrait).

Cur. Lit. 50 ('11): 320.

Cur. Op. 68 ('20): 851; 69 ('20): 371 (portrait).

Dial, 57 ('14): 281.

Ind. 77 ('14): 72.

Lit. Digest, 65 ('20): 43.

Liv. Age, 307 ('20): 671.

Lond. Merc. 2 ('20): 645; 3 ('20): 112.

New Repub. 9 ('16): supp. 6, (Hackett); 21 ('20): 321.

Poetry, 3 ('14): 182; 5 ('15): 296; 11 ('18): 214; 16 ('20): 101; 17 ('21): 262.

R. of Rs. 49 ('14): 245.

Spec. 125 ('20): 372, 604; 126 ('21): 645.

Touchstone, 2 ('18): 510.

+Philip Littell+--critic.

Born at Brookline, Ma.s.sachusetts, 1868. A.B., Harvard, 1890. On staff of _Milwaukee Sentinel_, 1890-1901, and _New York Globe_, 1910-13. On _The New Republic_ since 1914. His one volume is _Books and Things_, 1919.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Dial, 68 ('20): 362.

No. Am. 210 ('19): 849.

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1919.

+Jack London+--novelist.

Born at San Francisco, 1876. Studied at the University of California, but left college to go to the Klond.y.k.e. In 1892, shipped before the mast.

Went to j.a.pan; hunted seal in Behring Sea. Tramped far and wide in the United States and Canada, in 1894, for social and economic study. War correspondent in the Russian-j.a.panese War. Traveled extensively.

Socialist. Died in 1916.

His work is very uneven; but the following books are regarded as among his best:

The Call of the Wild. 1903.

The Sea-Wolf. 1904.

Martin Eden. 1909. (Autobiographical.) John Barleycorn. 1913. (Autobiographical.)

For an account of his life and work, see _The Book of Jack London_, by Charmian London, 1921 (cf. _Freeman_, 4 ['22]: 407). For reviews, cf. the _Book Review Digest_, especially 1903-7, 1911, 1915.

+Robert Morss Lovett+--man of letters.

Born at Boston, 1870. A.B., Harvard, 1892. Taught English at Harvard, 1892-3; at Chicago, since 1893; professor since 1909. Editor of _The Dial_, 1919. On the staff of _The New Republic_, 1921--.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Richard Gresham. 1904. (Novel.) A Winged Victory. 1907. (Novel.) Cowards. 1917. (Play, published in _Drama_, 7.)

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Drama, 7 ('17): 325.

+Amy Lowell+--poet, critic.

Born at Brookline, Ma.s.sachusetts, 1874. Sister of President Lowell of Harvard, and of Percival Lowell, the astronomer. Distantly related to James Russell Lowell. Educated at private schools. Traveled extensively in Europe as a child. Her visits to Egypt, Greece, and Turkey influenced her development. In 1902, she decided to become a poet and spent eight years studying, without publishing a poem. Her first poem appeared in the _Atlantic_, 1910.

She is a collector of Keats ma.n.u.scripts and says that the poet who influenced her most profoundly was Keats. She has also made special study of Chinese poetry.

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