Contemporary American Literature Part 51

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

1. The following influences have entered largely into Oppenheim's work: Whitman, the Bible, and the theories of psycho-a.n.a.lysis developed by Freud and Jung. Without considering these, no fair estimate of the value of his work can be reached.

2. In what respects does his poetry reflect the Oriental temperament?

3. What strength do you find in his work? what weakness?

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Doctor Rast. 1909. (Short stories.) Monday Morning and Other Poems. 1909.

Wild Oats. 1910. (Novel.) The Pioneers. 1910. (Poetic play.) *Pay-Envelopes. 1911. (Short stories.) The Nine-Tenths. 1911. (Novel.) The Olympian: A Story for the City. 1912.

Idle Wives. 1914.

*Songs for the New Age. 1914.

The Beloved. 1915.

War and Laughter. 1916. (Poems.) The Book of Self. 1917. (Poems.) Night. 1918. (Poetic drama in one act.) *The Solitary. 1919. (Poems.) The Mystic Warrior. 1921.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Untermeyer.

Acad. 89 ('15): 218.

Bookm. 30 ('09): 322 (portrait), 393.

Dial, 67 ('19): 301.

Ind. 88 ('16): 533 (portrait).

Nation, 109 ('19): 441.

New Statesman, 6 ('16): 332.

Outlook, 102 ('12): 207 (portrait).

Poetry, 5 ('14): 88; 11 ('18): 219; 16 ('20): 49; 20 ('22): 216.

R. of Rs. 47 ('13): 243 (portrait)

+Vincent O'Sullivan+--novelist.

Of American birth, but has lived many years in England. His work published in the time of the _Yellow Book_ was especially admired by the English critic, Edward Garnett, who maintained that Mr. O'Sullivan should rank high among our writers. American editions of _The Good Girl_ and _Sentiment_ were published in 1917.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A Book of Bargains. 1896. (With frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley.) Poems. 1896.

The Houses of Sin. 1897. (Poems.) Green Window. 1899.

A Dissertation upon Second Fiddles. 1902.

Human Affairs. 1905.

The Good Girl. 1912.

Sentiment and Other Stories. 1913.

See _Book Review Digest_, 1917.

+Thomas Nelson Page+--novelist, short-story writer.

Born on a Virginia plantation, 1853. Studied a short time at Washington and Lee University. Many higher honorary degrees. Practiced law in Richmond, Virginia, 1875-93. Amba.s.sador to Italy, 1913-9.

Mr. Page is one of the pioneer writers in negro dialects. His first collection of short stories, _In Ole Virginia_, 1887, is his best-known work.

For bibliography, see _Cambridge_, III (IV), 668. For biography and criticism, see Halsey, Harkins, Pattee, Toulmin, and the _Book Review Digest_, especially for 1906, 1909, 1913.

+Josephine Preston Peabody (Mrs. L.S. Marks)+--poet, dramatist.

Born in New York City. Educated at Girls' Latin School, Boston, and at Radcliffe, 1894-6. Instructor in English at Wellesley College, 1901-3.

Her play _The Piper_ obtained the Stratford-on-Avon prize in 1910. Died in 1922.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Wayfarers--A Book of Verse. 1898.

Fortune and Men's Eyes--New Poems with a Play. 1900.

Marlowe, a Drama. 1901.

The Singing Leaves. 1903.

Pan--A Choric Idyl. 1904.

The Wings. 1905. (Play.) The Book of the Little Past. 1908.

The Piper. 1909. (Play.) The Singing Man. 1911. (Poems.) The Wolf of Gubbio. 1913. (Play.) Harvest Moon. 1916. (War poems.) The Chameleon. 1917.

Portrait of Mrs. W. 1922.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Eaton, W.P. Plays and Players, 1916.

Moses.

Rittenhouse.

Bk. Buyer, 21 ('00): 9 (portrait).

Bookm. 32 ('10): 7 (portrait); 47 ('18): 550.

Critic, 40 ('02): 14 (portrait).

Cur. Lit. 49 ('10): 435 (portrait).

New Eng. M. n.s. 33 ('05): 426; 39 ('08): 225 (portrait), 236; 42 ('10): 270 (portrait).

Poetry, 9 ('17): 269.

+Bliss Perry+--critic.

Born at Williamstown, Ma.s.sachusetts, 1860. A.B., Williams, 1881; A.M., 1883. Studied at the universities of Berlin and Stra.s.sburg. Honorary higher degrees. Professor of English at Williams College, 1886-93; at Princeton, 1893-1900. Editor of the _Atlantic Monthly_, 1899-1909.