LibGuides: Late American Literature: Resources for Modernist Literature (1914-1945)

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Focus Texts

"Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson
"St. Louis" and "New Heavens for Old" by Amy Lowell
"The Death of the Hired Man" by Robert Frost
"Chicago" by Carl Sandburg
"Hands" by Sherwood Anderson
"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner
excerpt from A Retrospect by Ezra Pound
"How it Feels to be Colored Me" by Hurston
"The Man Who was Almost a Man" by Richard Wright
excerpt from The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain by Langston Hughes
"Recuerdo" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Chaplinesque" by Hart Crane
"Poetry" by Marianne Moore
"One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop

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Resources

Harlem Speaks by Cary D. Wintz
Call Number: E 185.6.H 262 2007
ISBN: 9781402204364
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
On modernism: the prospects for literature and freedom by Kampf, Loui
Call Number: AZ 361 .K3
Publication Date: 1967
On William Faulkner by Eudora Welty; Noel Polk (Afterword by)
Call Number: PS3511 .A86 Z985614 2003
ISBN: 1578065704
Publication Date: 2003-09-05
Unnatural Selections by Daylanne K. English
Call Number: PS228 .E84 E54 2004
ISBN: 9780807828687
Publication Date: 2004-04-26

The Body and the Song: Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics by Marilyn M. Lombardi
ISBN: 9780809318858
Publication Date: 1995-02-20
Gay Faulkner by Phillip Gordon
ISBN: 9781496825971
Publication Date: 2019-12-30
Literature, Modernism and Myth: Belief and Responsibility in the Twentieth Century by Michael Bell
ISBN: 9780521580168
Publication Date: 1997-01-28
Millay at 100: A Critical Reappraisal by Diane P. Freedman
ISBN: 9780809319732
Publication Date: 1995-03-29
The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory by Emma Heaney
ISBN: 9780810135550
Publication Date: 2017-08-01
The Other Carl Sandburg by Philip R. Yannella
ISBN: 9780878059416
Publication Date: 1996-10-01
Religious perspectives in Faulkner's fiction: Yoknapatawpha and beyond by Barth, J. Robert compiler
Call Number: PS 3511 .A86 Z62 C.2
Publication Date: 1972
William Faulkner by Daniel Joseph Singal
ISBN: 9780807823552
Publication Date: 1997-09-25
Women of the Harlem Renaissance by Cheryl A. Wall
ISBN: 9780253209801
Publication Date: 1995-09-22

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Article: Anderson's HANDS by Michael Sias (1999)
Poetry Foundation: Learning the Sonnet: A history and how-to guide to the famous form
Poets.org: Rules and History of the Villanelle
Poetry Through the Ages: Exploring Forms: background and examples of traditional, obscure, classic, and 21st Century poetic forms.
History.com: Harlem Renaissance: background on the Harlem Renaissance related to literature and music.
Poetry Foundation: An Introduction to the Harlem Renaissance: Tracing the poetic work of this crucial cultural and artistic movement.
Library of Congress Research Guide: Harlem Renaissance: provides access to selected Library of Congress digital and print resources as well as links to external websites on the Harlem Renaissance.

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