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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Modern English readings. New York, Rinehart & Co., 1946 (OCoLC)768250709 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Roger Sherman Loomis; Donald Lemen Clark |
| OCLC Number: | 964339 |
| Notes: | "Biographic notes": p. 1043-1062. |
| Description: | xxv, 1062 p. 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Biography. Florence Nightingale / Lytton Strachey -- J.E.B. Stuart / Gamaliel Bradford -- Abraham Lincoln : the first prairie years / Carl Sandburg -- Four years in a shed / Eve Curie -- Elizabeth Arden : Glamour, Inc. / Margaret Case Harriman -- My brother Steve / William Rose Benét. Biography. Autobiographic chapters. Life with father / Clarence Day -- Early impressions / Henry Adams -- Rowing / Oliver La Farge -- University days / James Thurber -- The modern Gothic / Vincent Sheean -- Flyers are inarticulate / Beirne Lay, Jr. -- Brave men / Ernie Pyle. The personal essay. The gentle giantess / Charles Lamb -- On going a journey / William Hazlitt -- Sounds / Henry David Thoreau -- Crabbed age and youth / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Hunting the deceitful turkey / Mark Twain -- How shall I word it? / Max Beerbohm -- Mr. Dooley on the education of the young / Finley Peter Dunne -- Codfish chowder and sun / Robert P. Tristram Coffin -- From Spargo to Carver to Speaker / Heywood Broun -- A garland of ibids / Frank Sullivan -- Spring comes to the farm / Betty Fible Martin -- Of goodness / Elizabeth Jackson. Reading, writing, and reviews. Reading. Of reading books / John Livingston Lowes -- The pursuit of values in fiction / Dorothy Brewster and Angus Burrell -- The novels of Thomas Hardy / Virginia Woolf -- Outline for a defense of poetry / Earl Daniels. Reading, writing, and reviews. Writing. Writing prose / W. Somerset Maugham -- Vocabulary and success / Johnson O'Connor -- On jargon / Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch -- The cliché expert / Frank Sullivan -- Stabilizing the language through popular songs / Sigmund Spaeth -- Excerpts from "A dictionary of modern English usage" / H.W. Fowler -- The daily theme eye / Walter Prichard Eaton -- Letters to the editor / Anonymous. Reading, writing, and reviews. Reviews. Eve Curie's Madam Curie / Clifton Fadiman -- Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln, the prairie years / Stuart Pratt Sherman -- Ernie Pyle's Brave men / Vincent Sheean -- The film Story of GI Joe / Manny Farber -- The film Grapes of wrath / John Mosher. Exposition. Simple exposition. Riveters / editors of Fortune -- Three kinds of hash / William Rhode -- Why an airplane flies / Wolfgang Langewiesche -- How to mark a book / Mortimer Adler. Exposition. Research papers. The Yankee School / George Lyman Kittredge -- Propaganda techniques of German fascism / Clyde R. Miller and others -- Marco Polo / Eileen Power. Exposition. Discussions of modern problems. Four kinds of thinking / James Harvey Robinson -- Gate receipts and glory / Robert M. Hutchins -- The American student as I see him / Gilbert Highet -- Education for freedom / Robert M. Hutchins -- Even A.B.'s must eat / Ernest Earnest -- Alumni and civic responsibility / C. Robert Pace -- Free speech in America / Zechariah Chafee, Jr. -- The radio boom and the public interest / Bernard B. Smith -- Liberty for what? / Alexander Meiklejohn -- America / Dorothy Thompson -- The citizen's charter / Geoffrey Crowther -- The lessons of TVA / David E. Lilienthal -- When can the atom be put to work? / Harry M. Davis -- Modern man is obsolete / Norman Cousins -- Walt Whitman and the peace / Robert A. Hume -- Petty Anglo-American differences / Thomas W. Lamont -- A Texan in England / J. Frank Dobie -- Dialogue on Gorki Street / John Hersey -- Apology for man / Earnest A. Hooton -- Evolution and ethics / Thomas Henry Huxley -- Why is God silent while evil rages? / Harry Emerson Fosdick -- Infallibility / John Henry Newman. Short stories. The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allen Poe -- A lodging for the night / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Night club / Katharine Brush -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét -- The garden party / Katherine Mansfield -- I can't breathe / Ring Lardner -- But it's O! in my heart / Joan Vatsek -- The day of victory / Howard Fast -- The three swimmers and the grocer from Yale / William Saroyan -- The veterans reflect / Irwin Shaw. Short stories. Short short stories. Salesmanship / Mary Ellen Chase -- Guidance / Margaret Widdemer -- Mrs. Packletide's tiger / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- The end of something / Ernest Hemingway -- Breakfast / John Steinbeck -- The first day / James Reid Parker. Plays. Riders to the sea / John Millington Synge -- The fall of the city / Archibald MacLeish -- Beyond the horizon / Eugene O'Neill -- The green pastures / Marc Connelly -- You can't take it with you / Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman -- Good heavens / Norman Corwin. Poetry. Ballads. The sacrilege / Thomas Hardy -- The ballad of east and west / Rudyard Kipling -- Farewell to barn and stack and tree / A.E. Housman -- Abraham Lincoln / Stephen Vincent Benét -- A ballad maker / Padraic Colum -- Jesse James / William Rose Benét -- Robin Hood rescuing the widow's three sons ; Jesse James / Anonymous -- Jim Bludso of the prairie belle / John Hay -- Skipper Ireson's ride / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Ballad of old Doc Higgins / Leonora Speyer. Poetry. Narrative poems. The haystack in the floods / William Morris -- The raid on Harper's Ferry / Stephen Vincent Benét -- The blindman / Hervey Allen -- Saul Kane's fight (from The everlasting mercy) / John Masefield. Poetry. Dramatic lyrics. Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- My last duchess / Robert Browning -- The death of the hired man / Robert Frost -- The listeners / Walter de la Mare -- The Santa Fé Trail / Vachel Lindsay. Poetry. Odes. Ode to the west wind / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats -- Pioneers! O pioneers! / Walt Whitman -- Chicago / Carl Sandburg -- Ode to the Confederate dead / Allen Tate. Poetry. Songs. Willie brewed a peck O'Maut ; Sweet Afton ; Auld lang syne / Robert Burns -- Break, break, break ; The splendor falls / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Marching along / Robert Browning -- When I am dead, my dearest / Christina Rossetti -- The night has a thousand eyes / F.W. Bourdillon -- Gaudeamus Igitur / translated by John Addington Symonds. Poetry. Elegies. Rugby Chapel / Matthew Arnold -- My sister's sleep / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- The eagle that is forgotten / Vachel Lindsay -- Deirdre / James Stephens -- To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman -- A soldier / Robert Frost. Poetry. Lighter lyrics. The time I've lost in wooing / Thomas Moore -- Rondeau / Leigh Hunt -- Love in a cottage / Nathaniel Parker Willis -- A letter of advice / Thomas Hood, Jr. -- A terrible infant / Frederick Locker-Lampson -- Ballade made in the hot weather ; The villanelle / W.E. Henley -- The ballade of prose and rhyme / Austin Dobson -- The ballad of dead ladies (François Villon) / translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- The twentieth century gets through / E.B. White -- Ad leuconoen / Franklin P. Adams. Poetry. Satire. The latest decalogue / Arthur Hugh Clough -- Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- From Lines to John Lapraik / Robert Burns -- Reform in our town / Bert Leston Taylor -- Publicity / Lee Wilson Dodd -- Base details / Siegfried Sassoon -- Next to of course God / E.E. Cummings. Poetry. Descriptive lyrics. London snow / Robert Bridges -- Autumn in Cornwall / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Sea-fever / John Masefield -- Strange holiness / Robert P. Tristram Coffin -- After dry weather / Mark van Doren -- Loveliest of trees / A.E. Housman -- Poem for the time of change / Archibald MacLeish -- The study in Æsthetics / Ezra Pound -- To a locomotive in winter / Walt Whitman -- The express / Stephen Spender -- October hills / Thomas S. Jones, Jr. Poetry. Love lyrics. Love's philosophy / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Sonnet / John Keats -- When we two parted / Lord Byron -- Lovesight ; Mid rapture / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- A birthday / Christina Rossetti -- If thou must love me / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Sonnet for Svanhild / Joseph Auslander -- Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow! / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Prelude ; An interlude ; Epilogue / Richard Aldington -- I can no more hear love's voice / José Garcia Villa. Poetry. Poems of doubt and faith. From In memoriam / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Prospice / Robert Browning -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- Invictus / William Ernest Henley -- To fight aloud is very brave / Emily Dickinson -- Fire on the hills / Robinson Jeffers -- Impiety / Helene Magaret -- The pyre / Thomas S. Jones, Jr. -- Morning song (from Senlin) / Conrad Aiken -- Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Still falls the rain / Edith Sitwell -- Journey of the magi / T.S. Eliot. Poetry. Poetry of social change. The song of the shirt / Thomas Hood -- Consider these, for we have condemned them / C. Day Lewis -- The man with the hoe / Edwin Markham -- From The river / Pare Lorentz -- Get there if you can and see the land you once were proud to own / W.H. Auden -- Song of the answerer (a reply to Walt Whitman) / Helene Magaret -- Efficiency expert / Florence Converse -- I am the people, the mob / Carl Sandburg -- Speech to those who say comrade / Archibald MacLeish -- Moving through the silent crowd / Stephen Spender. Poetry. Poems about liberty. From Areopagitica / John Milton -- From The hind and the panther / John Dryden -- It is not to be thought / William Wordsworth -- A foreign ruler / Walter Savage Landor -- You ask me, why, though ill at ease / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Independence / Henry David Thoreau -- America / Samuel Francis Smith -- Laus Deo! / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Ballad of the common man / Alfred Kreymborg -- The peacemaker / Joyce Kilmer -- Let America be America again / Langston Hughes -- The slave / James Oppenheim -- My heart rebels against my generation / George Santayana. |
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