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.
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. Ambassador 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.
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