A History of American Literature

Making It New: 1900–1945 427 bewilderment, and despair. He ceases to think of himself as a man, a meaningful creature, and despi ...

428 Making It New: 1900–1945 O’Neill’s interest in experiment drew him toward the use of symbolic masks for the actors in The Gr ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 429 of eleven plays entitled “A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed” tracing the fortunes of an Americ ...

430 Making It New: 1900–1945 a great Shakespearean actor) or what they might be (a great writer, a success), and no forms of emo ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 431 spring something happened to me,” she concludes. “Yes I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone ...

432 Making It New: 1900–1945 the disdain they felt for modern, urban culture was reflected in the pseudonyms the leading members ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 433 innocence and perfectibility of the individual, the possibility of progress, and the improvement or ...

434 Making It New: 1900–1945 this, a conviction that the best kind of social order is one “in which agriculture is the leading v ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 435 Selected Poems (1945, 1963, 1969), attests. He is also among those most firmly committed to the bel ...

436 Making It New: 1900–1945 he refers in his essays to that “irony” which, by combining the dream of the ideal with the dismay ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 437 (1929) and several volumes of comment and criticism, from Reactionary Essays on Poetry and Ideas (1 ...

438 Making It New: 1900–1945 alternative to the plight of the person remembering them. The voice of “Antique Harvesters,” howeve ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 439 Lee in the Mountains and Other Poems (1938), and The Long Street (1961), and in prose works, one co ...

440 Making It New: 1900–1945 might be: the process is dialectical and there is no end to the growth and discovery of the self, o ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 441 a sense of energetic composure, disciplined ease. At the same time, the preoccupation with failure ...

442 Making It New: 1900–1945 All the King’s Men (1946), Warren’s most famous and accomplished novel, shows precisely how he gave ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 443 are not alone in doing this even within the context of their region. Another, unjustly neglected fi ...

444 Making It New: 1900–1945 series of remembered and recurring experiences which belong almost entirely to the subrational leve ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 445 adopting an approach of classical restraint toward this subject, and attaching his account of “the ...

446 Making It New: 1900–1945 Populism and radicalism Of those who did, contrary to Eberhart, think that a looser form and fierce ...