Literature in the Making, by Some of its Makers
Joyce Kilmer , Various
24 chapters · 5 h 35 min · English
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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
Chapters
1 Introduction 4 min 2 William Dean Howells: War Stops Literature 15 min 3 Kathleen Norris: The Joys of the Poor 14 min 4 Booth Tarkington: National Prosperity and Art 11 min 5 Montague Glass: Romanticism and American Humor 20 min 6 Rex Beach: The 'Movies' Benefit Literature 12 min 7 Robert W. Chambers: What is Genius? 13 min 8 James Lane Allen: Deterioration of the Short Story 13 min 9 Harry Leon Wilson: Some Harmful Influences 18 min 10 Edward Sandford Martin: The Passing of the Snob 13 min 11 Robert Herrick: Commericalizing the Sex Instinct 15 min 12 Arthur Guiterman: Sixteen Don'ts for Poets 11 min 13 George Barr Mccutcheon: Magazines Cheapen Fiction 14 min 14 Frank H. Spearman: Business Incompatible with Art 20 min 15 Will N. Harben: The Novel Must Go 13 min 16 John Erskine: Literature in the Colleges 13 min 17 John Burroughs: City Life versus Literature 18 min 18 Ellen Glasgow: 'Evasive Idealism' in Literature 14 min 19 Fannie Hurst: 'Chocolate Fudge' in the Magazines 13 min 20 Amy Lowell: The New Spirit in Poetry 11 min 21 Edwin Arlington Robinson: A New Definition of Poetry 12 min 22 Josephine Preston Peabody: Let Poetry be Free 13 min 23 Charles Rann Kennedy: The Heresy of Supermanism 15 min 24 Percy MacKaye: The Masque and Democracy 18 min
