Contemporary American Literature: Bibliographies and Study OutlinesManly, John Matthews
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Contemporary American Literature: Bibliographies and Study Outlines
Manly, John Matthews
American literature -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography; American literature -- Outlines, syllabi, etc.
+James Brendan Connolly+ (Massachusetts)--short-story writer. Writes
realistic sea stories. For bibliography, see _Who's Who in America_.
+George Cram Cook+ (Iowa, 1873)--dramatist.
Director of the Provincetown Players since 1915. With Susan Glaspell
(q.v.) wrote _Suppressed Desires_ (1915) and _Tickless Time_ (1920).
Other plays are: The Athenian Women. 1917.
Spring. 1921. (Cf. _Literary Review_ of the _New York
Evening Post_, Feb. 11, 1922, p. 419.)
For complete bibliography, see _Who's Who in America_.
+Alice Corbin (Mrs. William Penhallow Henderson)+--poet, critic.
Born at St. Louis, Missouri. Lived many years in Santa Fe, New Mexico,
which has furnished material for many of her poems. Associate editor of
_Poetry_ since its foundation in 1912.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Spinning Woman of the Sky. 1912. (Poems.)
The New Poetry, An Anthology. 1917. (Compiled with Harriet Monroe, q.v.)
Red Earth. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 47 ('18): 391.
Freeman, 4 ('22): 468.
New Repub. 28 ('21): 304.
Poetry, 9 ('16-'17): 144, 232.
+John Cournos+--novelist.
Mr. Cournos' studies of the immigrant in America in _The Mask,_ 1920, and
_The Wall_, 1921, attracted attention.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 51 ('20): 76.
Dial, 68 ('20): 496.
Freeman, 4 ('21): 238.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1920, 1921.
+Adelaide Crapsey+--poet.
Born at Rochester, New York, 1878. A.B., Vassar, 1902. Taught English at
Kemper Hall, Kenosha, Wisconsin, 1903. In 1905, studied archaeology in
Rome. Instructor in poetics at Smith College, 1911; but stopped teaching
because of failing health. Died at Saranac Lake, 1914.
She had begun an investigation into the structure of English verse, which
she was unable to finish. Her poems were nearly all written after her
breakdown in 1913, and reflect the tragic experience through which she
was passing.
Some of them are written in a form of her own invention, the "cinquain"
(five unrhymed lines, having two, four, six, eight, and two syllables).
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
1. Miss Crapsey's theories of versification should be remembered in
studying her forms.
2. What is to be said of her verbal economy?
3. A comparison of her verses with those of Emily Dickinson has been
suggested. Carried out in detail, it suggests interesting points of
difference as well as of resemblance.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Poems. 1915.
Study in English Metrics. 1918.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Untermeyer.
Bookm. 50 ('20): 496.
Poetry, 10 ('17): 316.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1916, 1918.
+Gladys Cromwell+--poet.
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