V. The Modern Era (1914-1945) 5.1 Modern Poetry (Five Modernist Giants) (A)

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V. The Modern Era (1914-1945) 5.1 Modern Poetry
(Five Modernist Giants) (A)

• 1. Ezra Pound (85-72) Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
  Cantos Cathay
• 2. T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred
  Prufrock(1915),
• The Wasteland (1922), Four
  Quartets(1935-42)
• 3. Wallace Stevens Harmonium, Ideas of Order,
  The Man with the
• Blue Guitar and Other Poems
  Anecdote of the Jar
• 4. W.C. Williams Paterson (1946-63) The Red
  Wheelbarrow
• 5. Robert Frost(1874-1963)
• A Boys Will(1913, Mowing)
• North of Boston (14, Home Burial, Mending
  Wall, After Apple-Picking )
• Mountain Interval (1916, Birches, The Road Not
  Taken)
• New Hampshire (23/Fire and Ice Stopping by
  Woods on a Snowy Evening)
• West-Running Brook (28) A Further Range(36,
  Design)
• A Witness Tree(42) Steeple Bush(47,
  Directive) In the Clearing (1962)

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V. The Modern Era (1914-1945) 5.1 Modern Poetry
(Other Modernist Poets) (B)

• 1. Harriet Monroe Louis Untermeyer two
  modernist pioneers
• 2. Carl Sandburg and Midwest poets Chicago
  Poems Cornhuskers Good Morning, America The
  People, Yes Smoke and Steel.
• 3. Vachel Lindsay General William Booth Enters
  into Heaven The Congo The Chinese Nightingale
  and Other Poems
• 4. Hart Crane White Buildings,26 The Bridge, 30
• 5. e. e.cummings The Enormous Room (22)Tulips
  and Chimneys(23)
• 6. H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Sea Garden Helen in
  Egypt Oread Heat Hermes of the Ways
• 7. John Gold Fletcher Irradiations Sand and
  Spray The Ghosts of an Old House Goblins and
  Pagodas
• 8. Marianne More Poems Observations No Swan
  So Fine Fish
• 9. Fugitives such as Ransom, Allan Tate, Donald
  Davidson, etc.

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V. The Modern Era (1914-1945) 5.2 Modern
Novelists 1

• 1. Two Novelists in the Transitional era
• A. Sherwood Anderson(1876-1941)
• Windy McPhersons Son (16) Marching Men (17)
• Winesburg, Ohio (19) Poor White (20) The
  Triumph with the Egg(21)
• Dark Laughter (25) Death in the Woods (33)
• B. Willa Cather(1873-1947)
• Alexanders Bridge(12), O Pioneers(13),
• The Song of the Lark(15), My Antonio(18)
• One of Ours (22)The Professors House (23)
• 2. The first Nobel Prize Winner Sinclair
  Lewis(1885-1951)
• Our Mr. Wrenn (14) Main Street (1920) Babbitt
  (1922)
• Arrowsmith (25) Elmer Gantry (27) Dodsworth (29)

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V. The Modern Era (1914-1945) 5.2 Modern
Novelists 2

• 3. Two Female Euro-Residing Geniuses in the
  modern literary stage
• A. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) Three Lives
  (1909) The Making of America (1925) Tender
  Buttons (1914) The Autobiography of Alice B.
  Toklas (1933)
• B. Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) A Book (1923) A
  Night Among the Horses (1929) Ryder (1928)
  Nightwood (1936) Smoke and Other Early
  Stories(82)
• 4. Representatives of the Lost Generation
• A. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
• In Our Time (25) The Sun also Rises (26)
  Men without Women (27) A Farewell to Arms (29)
  Winner Take Nothing (33) Death in the Afternoon
  (32) Green Hills of Africa (35) To Have and For
  Whom the Bell tolls (40) The Old Man and the Sea
  (52)
• The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The
  Snows of Kilimanjaro.
• B. F. S. Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
• This Side of Paradise (20) Flappers and
  Philosophers (20) Tales of the Jazz Age (22)
  The Beautiful and the Damned (22) The Great
  Gatsby (25) Tender is the Night (34) The Last
  Tycoon (41)

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V. The Modern Era (1914-1945) 5.2 Modern
Novelists 3

• 5. Epitome of the Southern Renaissance
• William Faulkner (1897-1962) and his
  Yoknapatawpha country
• Soldiers Pay (26) Mosquitoes (27)
  Sartoris(29) The Sound and the Fury (29) As I
  Lay Dying (30)Sanctuary (31) Light in August
  (32) Absalom, Absalom (36)
• The Unvanquished (38) The Wild Palms (39) Go
  Down, Moses (42)(The Bear)
• The Hamlet (40) A Fable (57)The Town (57) The
  Mansion (60)
• Intruder into the Dust (48) Requiem for a Nun
  (51) The Reivers (62)

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V. The Modern Era (1914-1945) 5.2 Modern
Novelists 4

• 6. Faulkners Southern Followers
• A. Anne Porter (1890-1980)
• Flowering Judas (30) Noon Wine (37) Pale Horse,
  Pale Rider (39)
• Ships of Fools (62) The Never-Ending Wrong (77)
  Letters (90)
• B. Eudora Welty (1909- )
• A Curtain of Green (41) The Wide Net (43) The
  Golden Apples (49)
• The Bride of the Innisfallen (55) Moon Lake
  (80) The Robber Bridegroom (42) Delta Wedding
  (46) The Ponder Heart (54) The Optimists
  Daughter (72)
• C. Carson McCullers(1917-67) The Heart is a
  Lonely Hunter (40) Reflections in a Golden
  Eye(41) The Member of the Wedding (46) Clock
  without Hands(61) The Ballad of the Sad Café (51)

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V. The Modern Era (1914-1945) 5.2 Modern
Novelists 5

• 7. Pearl Buck (1892-1973), the first Woman Nobel
  Prize Winner in Literature and China under her
  Pen
• The House of Earth trilogy The Good
  Earth,1931, Pulitzer Prize Sons, 1932 A House
  Divided, 1935.
• The Spirit and the Flesh (36) All Men Are
  Good Brothers (33,37) Imperial Woman (1956)
• 8. Raymond Chandlers(1888-1959) mystery novels
• The Big Sleep (39) Farewell, My Lovely (40)
  The Lady in the Lake (43) The Long Goodbye (54)

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V. The Modern Era (1914-1945) 5.2 Modern
Novelists 6

• 9. The Black Novelists in the Harlem
  Renaissance
• Zora Neale Hurston (1901-1960)
• Jonahs Gourd Vine (34) Their Eyes Were
  Watching God (37) Moses Man of the Mountain
  (39) Seraph on the Suwanee (48) Dust Tracks on
  a Road (42)
• Langston Hughes (1902-67)
• Novels Not Without Laughter (30) Tambourines to
  Glory (58)
• Short Tale Collections The Ways of White Folks
  (34) Something in Common (63)
• Poems The Weary Blues (26) Fine Clothes to the
  Jew (27) Dear Lovely Death (31) The Negro
  Mother (31) The Dream Keeper (32) Montage of a
  Dream Deferred (51) Ask Your Mama (61)
• Richard Wright (1908-1960)
• Uncle Toms Children (38) Native Son(40) 12
  Million Black Voices (41) Black Boy(45) The
  Outsider (53) The Long Dream (58)

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V. The Modern Era (1914-1945) 5.2 Modern
Novelists 7

• 10. The Radical Novelists as the Leftist
  Writers
• John Dos Passos (1896-1970)
• Three Soldiers (21) Manhattan Transfer (25)
  Orient Express (27)
• USA Trilogy The 42nd Parallel (30) 1919(32)
  The Big Money (36)
• District of Columbia Trilogy (52) Adventures of
  a Young Man(39) Number One (43) The Grand
  Design (49)
• Steinbeck(1902-1968)
• The Cup of Gold (29) The Pastures of Heaven(32)
  Tortilla Flat (35) In Dubious Battle (36) Of
  Mice and Men (37) The Grapes of Wrath (39) The
  Pearl (48) Bombs Away The Story of a Bomber
  Team (42) The Moon is Down (42) Cannery Row
  (45) The Wayward Bus (47) East of Eden (52),
  etc.
• James T. Ferrell(04-79)
• Young Lonigan (32) The Yang Manhood of Studs
  Lonigan (34) Judgment Day (35)
• Erskine Caudwell(03-87)
• Tobacco Road (32) Gods Little Acre (33)
• Journeyman (35) Trouble in July (40) House in
  the Uplands 46)

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V. The Modern Era (1914-1945) 5.2 Modern
Novelists 8

• 11. The Jewish American Novelists in this Period
  
• Nathaniel West (03-40) The Dream Life of Balso
  Snell,31 Miss Lonelyhearts,33 A Cool Million,
  34 The Day of the Locust,39.
• Edwin Rolfe (09-54) To My Contemporaries, 36
  Epitaph, for Arnold Reid, 38 First Love and
  Other Poems,51 Permit Me Refuge,41.
• Henry Roth (05-95) Call It Sleep, 34 Mercy of a
  Rude Stream, 94.
• Tess Slessinger (05-45) Missis Flinders, 32
  Time The Present, 35 The Unpossessed, 34,her
  first novel.
• Muriel Rukeyser (13-80) Theory of Flight, 35
  (including The Boy with His Hair Cut Short)
  U.S.1, 38 A Turning Wind, 39 The Soul and Body
  of John Brown, 40 Beast in View, 44.
• Karl Shapiro (13-2000) Good Housekeeping
  Poetry.
• Abraham Cahan (60-51) Yekl A Tale of the New G
  York Ghetto, 1896 The Rise of Davis Levinsky,
  17.

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V. The Modern Era (1914-1945) 5.2 Modern
Novelists 8

• 11. The Jewish American Novelists in this Period
  
• Mary Antin (1881-1949) From Polotzk to Boston,
  1899 The Promised Land,1912 The Lie,1913.
• Anzia Yezierska (85-70)The Free Vacation House,
  1913 All I could Never Be,32 Red Ribbon on a
  White Horse My Story,50 The Fat of the Land,19
  Hungry Heart,20 Children of Loneliness, 23
  Salome of Tenements, 23 Bread Givers, 25
  Arrogant Beggar, 27.
• Ludwig Lewishohn (82-55) Up Stream,22 The
  Broken Snare, 08 The Case of Mr. Crump, 26 The
  Island Within, 28.
• Michael Gold (93-67) Jews without Money, 30 120
  Million, 32 the Hollow Man, 41.
• Edward Dahlberg (1900-77) Bottom Dogs,29 From
  Flushing to Calvary, 32 Those Who Perish,34 Do
  These Bones Live?41.
• Kenneth Fearing (02-61) Death Reckoning,38
  Clark Giffords Boy,42 The Big Clock, 46.

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V. The Modern Era (1914-1945) 5.3 Modern
American Drama

• The Rise of Small Theatres Neighborhood
  Playhouse, Provincetown Players, The Theatre
  Gild, Washington Square Players, The Group
  Theatre, Playwrights Company, etc.
• The Opening of the dramatic courses George
  Pierce Bakers English 47, from Harvard
  University to Yale University.
• Susan Glaspell(1876-48)as the pioneer of the
  feminist drama
• the founder of the Provincetown Players, the
  reformer of theatre
• novels The Glory of the Conquered (09) Fidelity
  (15) Visioning(11)
• Plays Suppressed Desires (15, the first of
  modern American Drama)
• Trifles (1916, her masterpiece) The
  Outside (17) Bernice (19)

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V. The Modern Era (1914-1945) 5.3 Modern
American DramaThe Comedian Tradition

• George S. Kaufman(89-61) founder of modern
  popular comedy
• major plays Dulcy, 21 To the Ladies, 22 Once
  in a Lifetime, 30 Of Thee I Sing,31 You Cant
  Take It with You, 36 Beggar on the Horseback,
  22.
• Samuel Nathaniel Behrman (93-73)
• Major plays The Second Man(27) Biography (32)
  End of Summer (36) The Burning Glass (68)
• Philip Barry (96-49)
• Major plays You and I (23) The Youngest (24)
  In a Garden (25)
• Paris Bound (1927) Holiday (28) Universe Hotel
  (30) The Philadelphia Story (39)

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V. The Modern Era (1914-1945) 5.3 Modern
American Drama (Dramatic Renaissance)

• Eugene ONeill (88-53) and American Theatrical
  Renaissance
• Life theatrical background attending Prof.
  Bakers Workshop
• Divisions of Writings
• I (1913-1920)
• A Wife for a Life (13) Bound East For Cardiff
  (14) Beyond the Horizon (20)
• II (1920-1934)
• Anna Christine (20) The Emperor Jones (20)
  Desire Under the Elms (24) The Hairy Ape (21)
  The Great God Brown (25) All Gods Chillun Got
  Wings (23) Marco Millions (25) Strange
  Interlude (27) Mourning Becomes Electra (31)
• III (34-46)
• The Iceman Cometh (39) Long Days Journey into
  Night (40) Hughie (40) A Moon for the
  Misbegotten (43)

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V. The Modern Era (1914-1945) 5.3 Modern
American Drama (Social Drama)

• Maxwell Anderson (88-59) ONeills Only Match in
  the 20s
• White Desert (23) Whats the Price of
  Glory?(24) Winterset (35)
• Elmer Rice (92-67)
• On Trial(14) The Adding Machine(23) Winter
  Scene(29)The Subway
• Sidney Howard (91-39)
• They Knew What They Wanted (24) Lucky Sam
  McCarver (25) Ned McCobbs Daughter (24) The
  Silver Cord (26)
• Robert E. Sherwood (96-55)
• The Petrified Forest (35) Idiots Delight
  (36) Abe Lincoln in Illinois(38) There Shall Be
  No Night (40) Roosevelt and Hoptkins (48)

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V. The Modern Era (1914-1945) 5.3 Modern
American Drama (Social Drama)

• Sidney Kingsley(06-95)
• Men in White (33)Dead End (35)
• Lillian Hellman (05-84)
• The Childrens Hour (34) Days to Come (36) The
  Little Foxes (39) Watch on the Rhine (41) The
  Searching Wind (44)
• Thornton Wilde (97-75)
• Pullman Car Hiawatha (31) The Happy Journey to
  Trenton and Camden (31) Our Town (38) The Skin
  of Our Teeth (42)
• T. S. Eliot (the Advocate of the poetic drama in
  20th Century)
• Sweeney Agonistes (26) Murder in the Cathedral
  (35) Family Reunion (39) The Cocktail Party
  (49) The Confidential Clerk (53) The Elder
  Statesman (59)