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CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN
LITERATURE
ОглавлениеALPHABETICAL LIST OF AUTHORS
Franklin Pierce Adams—(Illinois, 1881)—humorous poet, “columnist.”
Editor of “The Conning Tower” in the New York World.
For bibliography, cf. Who’s Who in America.
Henry (Brooks) Adams—man of letters.
Born in Boston, 1838. Great-grandson of John Adams and grandson of John Quincy Adams, presidents of the United States. Brother of Charles Francis and Brooks Adams. A. B., Harvard, 1858, LL. D., Western Reserve, 1892.
Secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, American Minister to England, 1861–8. Assistant professor at Harvard, 1870–7, and editor of North American Review, 1870–6.
Lived in Washington from 1877 until his death in 1918, but traveled extensively and knew many famous people.
In memory of his wife, he commissioned Saint Gaudens to make for her tomb in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, the statue sometimes called Silence, which is one of the sculptor’s most beautiful works.
Suggestions for Reading
1. The Education of Henry Adams is autobiographic.
The persistent irony of the presentation should be corrected by reading Brooks Adams’s account of his brother.
2. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is an attempt to interpret the spirit of mediæval architecture, both secular and ecclesiastical. To appreciate it fully, familiarity with the subject is necessary.
The novels are worth study as satires.
Bibliography
Democracy. 1880. (Novel.)
Esther. 1884. (Novel; under pseudonym, “Frances Snow Compton.”)
Historical Essays. 1891.
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres. 1904.
The Education of Henry Adams. 1918.
The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma. 1919.
Letters to a Niece and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres. 1920.
Also in: A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861–1865. Edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford. 1920.
Studies and Reviews
Cambridge.
Ath. 1919, 1: 361; 1919, 2: 633; 1920, 1: 243, 665.
Atlan. 125 (’20): 623; 127 (’21): 140.
Bookm. (Lond.) 57 (’19): 30.
Cur. Op. 66 (’19): 108.
Dial, 65 (’18): 468.
Dublin Rev. 164 (’19): 218.
Harv. Grad. M. 26 (’18): 540.
Lond. Times, May 30, 1919: 290.
Nation, 106 (’18): 674.
New Repub. 15 (’18): 106.
New Statesman, 16 (’21): 711.
19th Cent. 85 (’19): 981.
Pol. Sci. Q. 34 (’19): 305.
Scrib. M. 69 (’21): 576 (portrait).
Spec. 122 (’19): 231.
World’s Work, 4 (’02): 2324.
Yale Rev. n. s. 8 (’19): 580; n. s. 9 (’20): 271, 890.
George Ade—humorist, dramatist.
Born at Kentland, Indiana, 1866. B. S., Purdue University, 1887. Newspaper work at Lafayette, Indiana, 1887–90. On the Chicago Record, 1890–1900.
Although some of his earlier plays were successful and promised a career as dramatist, his reputation now rests chiefly upon his humorous modern fables.
Bibliography
Fables in Slang. 1900.
More Fables. 1900.
Forty Modern Fables. 1901.
The County Chairman. 1903. (Play.)
The College Widow. 1904. (Play.)
Ade’s Fables. 1914.
Hand-Made Fables. 1920.
For complete bibliography, see Cambridge, III (IV), 640, 763.
Studies and Reviews
Moses.
Am. M. 73 (’11): 71 (portrait), 73.
Bookm. 51 (’20): 568; 54 (’21): 116.
Harp. W. 47 (’03): 411 (portrait), 426.
No. Am. 176 (’03): 739. (Howells.)
Rev. 2 (’20): 461.
Conrad Potter Aiken—poet, critic.
Born at Savannah, Georgia, 1889. A. B., Harvard, 1912. Has lived abroad, in London, Rome, and Windermere.
Suggestions for Reading
1. A good introduction to Mr. Aiken’s verse is his own explanation of his theory in Poetry, 14 (’19); 152ff. To readers to whom this is not accessible, the following extracts may furnish some clue as to his aim and method:
