Literature of the world : an introductory study . respectto subject matter, thenew poets have strivento free themselves fromthe didactic and obvi-ously moral tone, al-though their work oftenconveys a deep and seri-ous meaning. They feelthat all the phenomenaof life are legitimatematerial for poetry—blast furnaces and ghettofruit-venders as well asmountains, meadows, andlofty deeds. Unfortu-nately the movement hasits camp following of in-ferior verse-writers who seek distinction in mere freakishness andeccentricity. But these should not mislead one into a harsh judgmentof the school as a whole,
Literature of the world : an introductory study . respectto subject matter, thenew poets have strivento free themselves fromthe didactic and obvi-ously moral tone, al-though their work oftenconveys a deep and seri-ous meaning. They feelthat all the phenomenaof life are legitimatematerial for poetry—blast furnaces and ghettofruit-venders as well asmountains, meadows, andlofty deeds. Unfortu-nately the movement hasits camp following of in-ferior verse-writers who seek distinction in mere freakishness andeccentricity. But these should not mislead one into a harsh judgmentof the school as a whole, which has merits of a high and real its conspicuous exponents are Edward Arlington Robinson,Edgar Lee Masters, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay,and Witter Bynner. The Imagist group, whose ambition is to pre-sent clear, hard, concentrated, and strictly objective pictures ofnature and life, is best represented by Amy Lowell, John CJouldFletcher, and Mrs. Richard Aldington, the last-named writingunder the pen name of H. O. HENRY 510 LITERATURE OF THE WORLD Of the host of recent and contemporary novelists we single outfor mention Hamlin Garland, whose novels and short stories offarm life in the Middle West are convincing and well written;William Sydney Porter (writing under the name of ),who is, on the whole, the best of our recent short-story writers ;Winston Churchill, who has written worth-while novels on historicaland social themes; Edith Wharton, who has produced some excel-lent studies, especially of New York society life; Jack London, whoconcerns himself chiefly with the raw and primitive and elementalaspects of life; Theodore Dreiser, probably the most frank and un-compromising of our Realistic novelists ; and James Branch Cabell,whose unique style and original inventiveness have proved at-tractive to many readers. Aspects of the industrial struggle arepresented by ISIargaret Deland, Frank Norris, and Ernest Poole. American playwrights o
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