Literature in the Making, by Some of its Makers

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Various, Joyce Kilmer 1917
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  • Introduction
  • William Dean Howells: War Stops Literature
  • Kathleen Norris: The Joys of the Poor
  • Booth Tarkington: National Prosperity and Art
  • Montague Glass: Romanticism and American Humor
  • Rex Beach: The 'Movies' Benefit Literature
  • Robert W. Chambers: What is Genius?
  • James Lane Allen: Deterioration of the Short Story
  • Harry Leon Wilson: Some Harmful Influences
  • Edward Sandford Martin: The Passing of the Snob
  • Robert Herrick: Commericalizing the Sex Instinct
  • Arthur Guiterman: Sixteen Don'ts for Poets
  • George Barr Mccutcheon: Magazines Cheapen Fiction
  • Frank H. Spearman: Business Incompatible with Art
  • Will N. Harben: The Novel Must Go
  • John Erskine: Literature in the Colleges
  • John Burroughs: City Life versus Literature
  • Ellen Glasgow: 'Evasive Idealism' in Literature
  • Fannie Hurst: 'Chocolate Fudge' in the Magazines
  • Amy Lowell: The New Spirit in Poetry
  • Edwin Arlington Robinson: A New Definition of Poetry
  • Josephine Preston Peabody: Let Poetry be Free
  • Charles Rann Kennedy: The Heresy of Supermanism
  • Percy MacKaye: The Masque and Democracy
This is a collection of 23 essays based on interviews conducted by Joyce Kilmer with some of the most famous authors of the time (1917). Kilmer's idea, as outlined in the Introduction, was that there is a deep divide between those who write literature, and those who write about literature. He thus bridges the gap and asks authors, the 'makers' as mentioned in the title of the work, about their opinion about various topics. - Summary by Carolin

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