Literature in the Making, by Some of Its Makers

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Various. Literature in the Making, by Some of Its Makers

Literature in the Making, by Some of Its Makers

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INTRODUCTION

LITERATURE. IN THE MAKING

WAR STOPS LITERATURE

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

THE JOYS OF THE POOR

KATHLEEN NORRIS

NATIONAL PROSPERITY AND ART

BOOTH TARKINGTON

ROMANTICISM AND AMERICAN HUMOR

MONTAGUE GLASS

THE "MOVIES" BENEFIT LITERATURE

REX BEACH

WHAT IS GENIUS?

ROBERT W. CHAMBERS

DETERIORATION OF THE SHORT STORY

JAMES LANE ALLEN

SOME HARMFUL INFLUENCES

HARRY LEON WILSON

THE PASSING OF THE SNOB

EDWARD S. MARTIN

COMMERCIALIZING THE SEX INSTINCT

ROBERT HERRICK

SIXTEEN DON'TS FOR POETS

ARTHUR GUITERMAN

MAGAZINES CHEAPEN FICTION

GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON

BUSINESS INCOMPATIBLE WITH ART

FRANK H. SPEARMAN

THE NOVEL MUST GO

WILL N. HARBEN

LITERATURE IN THE COLLEGES

JOHN ERSKINE

CITY LIFE VERSUS LITERATURE

JOHN BURROUGHS

"EVASIVE IDEALISM" IN LITERATURE

ELLEN GLASGOW

"CHOCOLATE FUDGE" IN THE MAGAZINES

FANNIE HURST

THE NEW SPIRIT IN POETRY

AMY LOWELL

A NEW DEFINITION OF POETRY

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON

LET POETRY BE FREE

JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY

THE HERESY OF SUPERMANISM

CHARLES RANN KENNEDY

THE MASQUE AND DEMOCRACY

PERCY MACKAYE

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Mrs. Norris gave a somewhat embarrassed laugh. "I really shouldn't attempt to lay down the law in this way," she said. "I can speak only for myself—I must write of the people and things that I know best, but I ought not to attempt to prescribe what other people shall write about."

Mrs. Norris's chief literary enthusiasm seems to be Charles Dickens. "When we were all infants out in the backwoods of California," she said, "we battened on Dickens. Dickens and a writer whom I don't suppose anybody reads nowadays—Henry Kingsley. The boys read Sir Walter Scott's novels, and left Dickens to me. I read Dickens with delight, and I still read him with delight. I have found passages in Dickens of which I honestly believe there are no equal in all English literature except in Shakespeare. I do not think that there is ever a year in which I do not read some of Dickens's novels over again. Of course, any one can find Dickens's faults—but I do not see how any one can fail to find his excellences."

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