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Professor of English literature at Harvard, 1907--. Harvard lecturer at University of Paris, 1909-10.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Broughton House. 1890.
Salem Kittredge, and Other Stories. 1894.
The Plated City. 1895.
The Powers at Play. 1899. (Short stories.) A Study of Prose Fiction. 1902.
The Amateur Spirit. 1904.
Park St. Papers. 1909.
The American Mind. 1912.
The American Spirit in Literature. 1918.
The Study of Poetry. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 12 ('00): 359, 362 (portrait); 36 ('12): 443.
Dial, 70 ('21): 347.
Lit. W. 30 ('99): 264.
Outlook, 78 ('04): 880 (portrait); 102 ('12): 648.
R. of Rs. 34 ('06): Dec., p. 758; 46 ('12): Dec., p. 749. (Portraits.) Spec. 110 ('13): 809.
+William Lyon Phelps+--critic.
Born at New Haven, Connecticut, 1865. A.B., Yale, 1887; Ph.D. 1891; A.M., Harvard, 1891. Instructor in English literature at Yale, 1892-6, a.s.sistant professor of the English language and literature, 1896-1901; Lampson professor since 1901. Deacon in the Baptist Church.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Essays on Modern Novelists. 1910.
Essays on Russian Novelists. 1911.
Essays on Books. 1914.
Browning. 1915.
The Advance of the English Novel. 1916.
The Advance of English Poetry. 1918.
Archibald Marshall. 1918.
The Twentieth Century Theatre. 1918.
Reading the Bible. 1919.
Essays on Modern Dramatists. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 41 ('15): 585 (portrait), 587; 31 ('10): 349 (portrait).
Ind. 71 ('11): 815 (portrait).
Lond. Times, Mar. 17, 1910: 95.
Poetry, 14 ('19): 159.
R. of Rs. 45 ('12): 103 (portrait).
+David Pinski+--dramatist.
Born in Russia, 1873. Educated at the University of Berlin, 1897-9. Came to the United States, 1899. Studied at Columbia, 1903-4. President of Pinski-Ma.s.sel Press. President of Jewish National Workers' Alliance.
Socialist-Zionist.
His reputation is based princ.i.p.ally upon his five volumes of plays and two of stories in Yiddish, but he has also written in English.
BIBLIOGRAPHY (of works in English)
The Treasure. 1916. (Comedy.) Three Plays. 1918.
Little Heroes; The Stranger. 1918. (In Goldberg, I., Six Plays of the Yiddish Theatre. Second Series.)
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Cambridge.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1918-20.
+Edwin Ford Piper+ (Nebraska, 1871)--poet.
Mr. Piper's volume, (_Barbed Wire and Other Poems_, 1917) reflects the prairies of the Middle West.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Untermeyer.
Poetry, 12 ('18): 276.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1917.
+Ernest Poole+--novelist.
Born at Chicago, 1880. A.B., Princeton, 1902. Lived in University Settlement, New York, 1902-5, studying social conditions, especially in connection with child labor, and in the movement to fight tuberculosis.
He helped Upton Sinclair (q.v.) gather stockyards material for _The Jungle_. War correspondent in Germany and France, 1914-5. As a socialist, Mr. Poole also worked for a time in Russia with the revolutionaries.
The familiarity with dockyards and dockmen, which is such a striking feature of _The Harbor_, dates back to Mr. Poole's boyhood.
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