20th Century
Literature in America
A New Series
FICTION
THE MODERN NOVEL IN
AMERICA. 1900-1950
By Frederick
J.
Hoffman
Starting with Henry James and the
art of fiction, thill critical survey
traces the progress of the American
novel, highlighting dominant trends.
Hoffman predicts a new genera–
tion of writers who not only have
something to say but will know
how to say it. Bibliography and
index.
$3.00
DRAMA
FIFTY YEARS of AMERICAN
DRAMA. 1900-1950
By Alan S. Downer
When did the move towardgen–
uine American drama begin? How
has it developed? Where does Amer–
ican drama stand today? Downer's
excellent appraisal of the Amer–
ican theater indicates the answers
to
these questions. He surveys the
evolution of American drama from
the cliches of light melodrama to
a seriow art form which
has
finish
and sophilltication. Bibliography and
index.
$2.50
POETRY
ACHIEVEMENT IN
AMERICAN POETRY
1900-1950
By Louise Bogan
This critical study
is
a key to the
understanding and appreciation of
what America's poets have ...hiewd
in a lasting way Over the past fifty
years. In addi tion to a discussion
of the varied influences which have
entered into the shaying of Amer–
ican poetry, Miss Bogan includes
shar'ply~
drawn studies of thirty or
so mdividuaI poets and a selected
anthology of modern American
~t
ry. Bihliography and index.
~2.50
Three subsequent volumes, on
Non-Fiction, Short Fiction and
CriticilllI!l to be publillhed Spring
1952, will complete
this
series.
Descriptive circular sent on
request.
Coming
-
February 1952
EZRA POUND
AND THE CANTOS
By Harold Watts
$2.75
At Your Bookstore, or Write :
HENRY REGNERY COMPANY
20 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago . , III.
CONTRIBUTORS
RALPH ELLISON's first novel,
"Invisible Man," will appear this
spring under the imprint of Ran–
dom House.
JACQUES BARZUN is professor
of history at Columbia University.
JOHN H. PORTER has published
in the New Directions annual and
elsewhere. This is his first appear–
ance in PRo
HORACE GREGORY, the well–
known poet and critic, teaches at
Sarah Lawrence College.
LESLIE KATZ, who lives in New
York City, has appeared in the
New Directions annual and in other
periodicals.
Margaret Mead • Growth
&
Cul–
ture : A Photographic Study of
Balinese Childhood
7.50
Marianne Moore • Collected Poems
3.00
Shaw • Man
&
Superman
2.50
Leyda • The Melville Log
12.50
Richard Chase • Emily Dickinson
5.00
Gide • My Theater: Five Plays
&
An Essay
4.00
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