INDEX
Reading edition
Abélard, Peter, 134
Absolutists, 88
Adams, John, 96
Aeschylus, 137
Agnosticism, 216 et seq.
Agrarian class culture, 96 et seq.
Akiba, Rabbi, 197
Alcott, Louisa May, 167
Alexander, S., 84
“Alice in Wonderland,” Lewis Carroll, 169
Allan, John, 162, 164
Anarchism, 181 et seq.
Anarchists, 179 et seq.
Anderson, Margaret, 99
Anderson, Sherwood, 93–96, 99, 214
Andrewes, Lancelot, 221, 223
Aquinas, St. Thomas, 82, 121, 134, 153, 174, 197
Aragon, Louis, 131, 135, 165
Aristotle, 121, 137, 143, 204
Arlen, Michael, 140
Arrast, Harry d’, 67, 70
Art, 142 et seq., 149 et seq., 186 folk, 119 modern, 146 organism, 145 utilitarian, 142
Artists, American, abroad, 149 et seq. religious, 152
“Atlantic Monthly, The,” 214
“Atlantis,” Hart Crane, 106
Attitude toward life, 202
Augustine, St., 196, 197
Automobile, 48 et seq.
“Ave Maria,” Hart Crane, 103
Bach, Johann, Sebastian, 83
Bacon, Roger, 134, 137
Bakunin, Mikhail, 177
Balzac, Honoré de, 5, 82, 179
Bancroft (ballplayer), 23
Baseball, 21, 38, 40
Batty, William, 233, 234, 236, 239
Baudelaire, Charles, 167, 220
“Baudelaire,” T. S. Eliot, 223
Bazalgette, Léon, 165 et seq.
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 82, 179
Bergman, Henry, 63, 67
Bergson, Henri, 84, 128, 191, 245
Berkman, Alexander, 177, 179, 180
Bernard, St., 134
Billings, Josh, 131
Binns, Abraham, 235, 236
Blake, William, 82, 98, 134, 163, 179, 190, 220
Blum, Léon, appeal to, 265–269
Bourne, Randolph, 59 et seq.
Bradley, George G., 223
Brady, Edward, 179
Brancusi, Constantin, 148, 149
Braque, Georges, 148, 149
Breton, André, 135
“Bridge, The,” Hart Crane, 102 et seq., 106
“Broken Tower, The,” Hart Crane, 106
Brooks, Van Wyck, 150, 166, 168
Broun, Heywood, 39
Browder, Earl, 287 n.
Brown, John, 167
Brown, Sonia, 149
Bryan, William Jennings, 129
Buddha, 84, 98
Burke, Edmund, 78
Burke, Walter, 236
Burlak, Ann, 236, 237
Burns, Robert, 114
Cabell, James Branch, 141, 144, 145, 214
Calverton, V. F., 276
Calvin, John, 134
“Calvin Coolidge. His First Biography,” 45
“Cape Hatteras,” Hart Crane, 105
“Capital,” Karl Marx, 85
“Castle of Otranto, The,” Hugh Walpole, 116
Cather, Willa, 141, 170
Cellini, Benvenuto, 205
Cervantes, Miguel de, 138, 276
Cézanne, Paul, 83, 147, 149
Chaney, Lon, 115
Chaplin, Charles, 61–73, 115 “Circus, The,” 73 clothes, 67 “Gold Rush, The,” 115 mementos, 62 reserve, 63 et seq., 72 studio, 67 working habits, 66 et seq.
Chasseloup, Comte de, 62
Chateaubriand, François René, 165, 166, 167
Christians, 215
Christian Scientists, 215
Citroën, M., 112
Civil War, 97
Claudel, Paul, 165
Clemm, Mrs., 162
Clive, Henry, 67
Cobb, Ty, 23
Cocteau, Jean, 131
Codesido, Julia, 149
“Collected Poems of Hart Crane, The,” 108 n.
Collins, Wilkie, 221
Communism, 181 et seq.
Comte, Auguste, 82
“Confessions of Rousseau,” 85
Congress Against War, 254–256
Conrad, Joseph, 138
Coolidge, Calvin, 45 et seq., 125
Coolidge, Mrs. (mother of Calvin), 45 et seq.
Cooper, James Fenimore, 5
“Country of the Pointed Firs, The,” Sara Orne Jewett, 169
Cowley, Malcolm, 128, 135 letter to Waldo Frank, 131
Crane, Clarence Arthur, 98 et seq.
Crane, Hart, 96–108 ancestry, 98 birth, 98 death, 106 employed in candy business, 99 literary associations, 99 mystic, 100 purpose of work, 97
Crime, 35 et seq. (see also Murder)
Critics, 139, 141 et seq., 202
Crocker, Harry, 67, 70
Croly, Herbert, 75 et seq.
Crossword puzzle, 27
Cuban independence, message to Cuban students, 256–260
Cultures, 193 et seq.
“Cutty Sark,” Hart Crane, 104
Dada movement, 128 et seq., 165 in America, 129 et seq. in Europe, 128 et seq.
Daily News, New York, 123
Dante, 82, 102 et seq., 121, 134, 138, 142, 153, 174, 220, 225
“Dante,” T. S. Eliot, 222
Darwin, Charles Robert, 83, 84, 86, 90, 191, 200, 207
Davies, Marion, 63
“Decline of the West, The,” Oswald Spengler, 188–201
Delacroix, Ferdinand V. Eugène, 83
Democritus, 137, 195
Dempsey, Jack, 30, 32 (see also Prize fighting)
Derain, André, 148, 149
Descartes, René, 83, 137
Dewey, John, 79, 135, 174, 216
“Dewey’s Suppressed Psychology,” Scudder Klyce, 216 n.
“Dial, The” (magazine), 214
Dickens, Charles, 5, 221
Dickinson, Emily, 96, 98
“Divina Commedia,” Dante, 102 et seq., 121, 191
Donne, John, 99
“Don Quixote,” Cervantes, 73, 103
Dostoevski, Feodor M., 76, 82, 83, 86, 92, 134, 190
Dreiser, Theodore, 174, 214, 287
Dryden, John, 220
Durant, Will, 135
Eddington, Sir Arthur, 211
Eddy, Mary Baker, 215
“Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished,” 161 n.
Edwards, Jonathan, 96
Einstein, Albert, 137, 138, 211, 245
“Elegy,” Thomas Gray, 226
“Eleonora,” Edgar Allan Poe, 163
Eleusinians, 137
El Greco, 149
Eliot, T. S., 153, 214, 220–227 leadership, 226 lives in static world, 224 et seq. traits, 221 et seq.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 77, 97, 98, 163, 167, 168, 173 et seq.
Engels, Friedrich, 181
Epstein, Jacob, 149
Erasmus, Desiderius, 283
Esthetics, 187
Ethiopia, conquest of, 266
Euclid, 137
“Eureka,” Edgar Allan Poe, 163, 164
Euripides, 142
“Europe” (magazine), 253
Fairbanks, Douglas, 65, 115
Fairy tales, 170, 172
“Fall of the House of Usher, The,” Edgar Allan Poe, 163
Fascism, 285, 294
Fascists, 266 et seq.
Faure, Elie, 184
Felipe of Spain, 124
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 97
Firbank, Arthur, 131
Firpo, Luis, 32
Flaubert, Gustave, 165
Florida, 41 et seq.
Folk art (see Art)
Ford, Henry, 55, 112
Fort, Paul, 133
France, Anatole, 15, 205
Francis, St., 82, 205
Franco, General, 266
Franklin, Benjamin, 77, 274
Freud, Sigmund, 82–93, 203, 245 began as physician, 84 dream interpretation, 86 family, 83, 89 follower of Kant, 88 scientific value of work, 88
Freudian system, indictment of, 91 et seq.
Frick, Henry Clay, 180
Frost, Robert, 97, 170
Fuller, Margaret, 170
“Function of Criticism, The,” T. S. Eliot, 224
Gabirol, Ibn, 134, 197
Gauss, Karl Friedrich, 138
Gide, André, 84
Gish, Dorothy, 115
Gish, Lillian, 115
Gladstone, William E., 78
Godwin, William, 183
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 138, 139, 142, 164, 184, 192, 283
“Golden Day, The,” Lewis Mumford, 173 et seq.
Goldman, Emma, 177–183 rejects bolshevism, 181 et seq. traits, 178
Gourmont, Remy de, 132
Gray, Thomas, 226
“Great Tradition, The,” Granville Hicks, 276 n.
Greeley, Horace, 167
Griffith, David Mark, 65
Gris, Juan, 148
Griswold, Rufus W., 161
Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich, 213
Halevi, Jehuda, 197
Hamilton, Alexander, 274
Hammett, Dashiell, 275
“Harper’s,” 214
Hart, Grace, 98
Hart, William, 65
Hassam, Childe, 147
Hawthorne, Charles W., 147
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 170, 173
Heap, Jane, 99
Hearst, William Randolph, 63
Hecht, Ben, 110
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 82, 135, 138, 191, 283
Hemingway, Ernest, 94, 214, 275
“Henry Thoreau, Bachelor of Nature,” Bazalgette, trans. by Van Wyck Brooks, 165, 166, 168
Heraclitus, 137, 195
Hergesheimer, Joseph, 141
Hennes Trismegistus, 97
Hicks, Granville, 276
Hitler, Adolf, 240 et seq., 246, 253, 266, 286
Hollywood, 61, 68
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 5
Homer, 5
Hooker, Thomas, 96
Hosea, 134
“Huckleberry Finn,” Mark Twain, 170
Hulme, T. E., 205
Hume, David, 138
Hurst, Fannie, 140
Huxley, Aldous, 145, 203, 204
Hylan, Mayor, 40
Iamblichus, 196
Ibsen, Henrik, 7
“Idylls,” Tennyson, 169
Ikinilik, 91
Indian, American, 125
“Individual Talent,” T. S. Eliot, 224
Industrialism, 116 et seq.
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique, 83
“Interpretation of Dreams, The,” Sigmund Freud, 85
“Jacob’s Room,” Virginia Woolf, 145
James, Henry, 150, 151, 153, 174, 205
James, William, 174
Jazz, 118, 119 et seq.
Jefferson, Thomas, 96, 98
Jewett, Sara Orne, 169 et seq.
Jewry, 123, 240–253 American, 243 defined, 242 economic function in Middle Ages, 247 German, 240, 245 leaders, 244 persecution, 240, 253 and social justice, 248
Johnson, Walter, 40
Joyce, James, 145, 150
Jung, Carl, 92, 126
Kafka, Franz, 84
Kant, Immanuel, 82, 138, 190, 191
Klyce, Scudder, 216 n.
Kotzebue, August von, 139
Kreymborg, Alfred, 99
Kropotkin, Peter Alexeivitch, 177
Krutch, Joseph Wood, 201–220
Kuhn, Walt, 149
Laforgue, Jules, 99
Lajoie, Napoleon, 23, 32
Lamarck, Jean de, 200
Landis, Kenesaw M., 23
Larbaud, Valéry, 165
Lardner, Ring, 71
Laurentius, St., 124
Lawrence, D. H., 74 et seq., 102, 145
“Leaves of Grass,” Walt Whitman, 5
Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 90, 137, 191
Lenin, Nikolai, 72 n., 181
“Leonardo da Vinci,” Sigmund Freud, 85
Lewisohn, Ludwig, 221
“Liberation of American Literature, The,” V. F. Calverton, 276 n.
“Ligeia,” Edgar Allan Poe, 163
Lincoln, Abraham, 114, 201
Literature, pseudo, 139 et seq., 141 progress of, 131, 134
“Little Review, The” (magazine), 99
Lloyd, Harold, 115
Lloyd, Marie, 221
Lobachevski, Nikolai, 138
London, Jack, 174
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 5, 6
Lorentz, Hendrik, 138
Lowell, Amy, 99
Lowell, James Russell, 5
Mach, Ernst, 137
Machado, Gerardo, 257, 258
Machine, 153 et seq.
Madison, James, 96
Maillol, Aristide, 148, 149
Maimonides, 197
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 132
Mani, 196
Marin, John, 146, 148, 149
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso, 135
Marlowe, Christopher, 99
Marriott (ballplayer), 23
Martin, Henri, 147
Marx, Karl, 83, 84, 85, 90, 97, 181, 249 et seq., 270, 274, 283
Massis, Henri, 215
Materialism, 215 et seq.
Melville, Herman, 94, 99, 153, 163, 168, 170, 173, 174, 176, 201, 226, 272
Mencken, H. L., 38, 135–139, 221
Menjou, Adolphe, 67
Metaphysics, 136
Milton, John, 143, 203, 226
Minkowski, Hermann, 138
“Misanthrope, Le,” Molière, 120
“Modern Temper, The,” Joseph Wood Krutch, 202 et seq. analysis, 206 et seq. summary, 203–206
Mohammed, 196, 197
Molière, 120
Mom, Arturo, 72 n.
Monroe, Harriet, 99
“Morella,” Edgar Allan Poe, 163
Moses, 97
Most, Johann, 177, 179
Motion pictures, 111 et seq.
“Mountain Interval,” Robert Frost, 97
Moussorgsky, Modest P., 82
Mumford, Lewis, 96, 172–177
Munson, Gorham, 99
Murder, 25 et seq., 275
Musset, Alfred de, 71
Mussolini, Benito, 266
“Nation, The” (magazine), 214
National Textile Workers Union, 235
Nazis, 246
Negroes, 109, 122
Neurosis (see Psychoanalysis)
“New Republic, The” (magazine), 214, 253 n.
“New Series of Introductory Lectures, A,” Sigmund Freud, 90
Newspapers, 38 et seq.
Newton, Sir Isaac, 124, 138, 283
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 253 n.
Nietzsche, Friederich Wilhelm, 8, 84, 97, 138, 179, 190, 222
“1924” (magazine), 135
Nordau, Max, 190
“North of Boston,” Robert Frost, 97
“Notes from Underground,” Feodor M. Dostoevski, 85
O’Keeffe, Georgia, 149
“O Pioneers,” Walt Whitman, 5
Origen, 196
Ornstein, Leo, 122
Orozco, José Clemente, 146, 148
“Our America,” 176 n.
“Outline of History,” H. G. Wells, 188
Pageant of Freedom (Philadelphia), 33
“Paradiso,” Dante, 103
Pascal, Blaise, 90, 134
Paul, St., 134, 213
Philo, 196, 197
Philosophy, 135 et seq., 187
Picasso, Pablo, 146, 148, 149, 150, 151
Pickford, Mary, 65
Plato, 97, 98, 122, 134, 137, 143, 195
Platonist, 215
Plekhanov, George V., 181
Plotinus, 122, 134, 137, 196, 197
Poe, Edgar Allan, 5, 7, 94, 97, 98, 105, 153, 161–164, 165, 173, 174, 176, 226, 272
Poe, Virginia, 162
“Poetry” (magazine), 99
Poincaré, Raymond, 211
Polo Grounds, 21
Pound, Ezra, 99, 151, 153
“Powhatan’s Daughter,” Hart Crane, 103
Pradon, Nicolas, 139
Prize fighting, 29 et seq. Dempsey-Firpo fight, 32 Dempsey-Tunney fight, 29 et seq.
“Proem,” Hart Crane, 103
“Promise of American Life, The,” Herbert Croly, 77, 79
Protagoras, 137
Proudhon, Pierre Joseph, 179, 183
Proust, Joseph Louis, 165
Psychoanalysis, 85, 88
“Psychopathology of Everyday Life,” Sigmund Freud, 85
Pythagoras, 136, 137, 195
Quinault, Philippe, 139, 142
Rabelais, François, 283
Racine, Jean, 83, 139, 142, 276
Rasmussen, Knud, 91
Ray, Man, 148
Reeves, Alf, 67
“Re-discovery of America, The,” Waldo Frank, 212, notes on 96, 214, 216, 218
Refinement, 109
Reitman, Ben, 179
Remes, Andrew, 291 et seq.
Renan, Joseph Ernest, 191
Reviewers, 139
Rickard, Tex, 30, 31, 33
Riemann, Georg, 124, 138
Rimbaud, Jean Arthur, 83, 84, 99, 190
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai, 122
Rivera, Diego, 148
Robinson, Carl, 67
Rochelle, Pierre Drieu La, 135
Rolland, Romain, 262–264
Romains, Jules, 133
Roosevelt, Theodore, 78 et seq.
“Rosary, The” (song), 123
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 71, 82, 120, 165, 179, 190, 213, 217
Russell, Bertrand, 132 n., 137, 191, 201, 216
Ruth, Babe, 22, 32, 40
“Sacred Wood, The,” T. S. Eliot, 220
Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 165
Sandburg, Carl, 13
Santayana, George, 174
“Scarlet Letter, The,” Nathaniel
Hawthorne, 170
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 82, 83, 84, 138, 139, 190, 213
Seaver, Edwin, 135
Seldes, Gilbert, 149
“Seven Arts, The” (magazine), 99
Shakespeare, William, 138, 204, 212, 278
“Show-Off, The” (play), 118
Sinclair, Upton, 144
“Sins of Science,” Scudder Klyce, 216 n.
Sisler, George, 23, 40
Sophocles, 204, 212
Soupault, Philippe, 133
Soviet Russia, 260 et seq., 285
Spain, war in, 265 et seq.
Spencer, Herbert, 82, 84
Spengler, Oswald, 188–201 ignores Jews, 197 masters, 191 theory of cultures, 193 value, 190
Spinoza, Baruch, 134, 192, 204, 220, 249 et seq., 274, 282, 283
Stadtfelt, Charles, 291 et seq.
Stanard, Mary Newton, 161 n.
Stein, Gertrude, 186
Stein, Leo, 183–188 literary style, 183
Stendhal, 165, 179
Stieglitz, Alfred, 245
“Story of Philosophy,” Will Durant, 135
“Story Teller’s Story, A,” Sherwood Anderson, 93, 95, 167
Strachey, John, 276 n.
Stravinsky, Igor, 122, 150
Streets, 124 et seq.
“Sur” (magazine), 253
Surréalistes, 135
Swanson, Gloria, 115
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 220
“Swinburne,” T. S. Eliot, 223
Sylvia, Ferdinand, 233 et seq., 239
Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe, 191
Talley, Marion, 39
Tate, Allen, 101
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 203
Teresa, St., 134
Terre Haute jail, 287–294
Textile strike, 231–240
Thales, 195
Therapy, 88 et seq.
Thoreau, Henry David, 77, 94, 97, 166, 170, 173, 174, 176, 201, 272
“Thoughts after Lambeth,” T. S. Eliot, 221
“Thus Spake Zarathustra,” Nietzsche, 85
Tolstoi, Count Leo Nikolaievitch, 5, 7, 165, 190
Tool, 153 et seq.
“Totem and Taboo,” Sigmund Freud, 85
Totheroh, Roland, 67
“Tradition,” T. S. Eliot, 224
Transcendentalism, 214 et seq.
Trimble, Glen, 234, 238
Trotsky, Leon, 245
“Tunnel, The,” Hart Crane, 105
Tunney, Gene, 29
Twain, Mark, 174
Tzara, Tristan, 133, 135
United Artists, 65
“Universe,” Scudder Klyce, 216 n.
Valéry, Paul, 133, 165
Vance, Arthur C., 40
Van Vechten, Carl, 214
Vinci, Leonardo da, 85, 142
Virgil, 121
Vorse, Mary Heaton, 239
“Voyages,” Hart Crane, 102
Vulgarity, 109 et seq.
Wagner, John Henry (“Honus”), 23
Wagner, Richard, 82, 83
Walker, Mayor, 38
Walkowitz, Abram, 149
War, 265 et seq. World, 97, 128 (see also Congress Against War)
“Waste Land, The,” T. S. Eliot, 226
Weber, Max, 146
Wells, H. G., 144
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, 151
“White Buildings,” Hart Crane, 101, 102, 106
Whitehead, Alfred N., 84, 92, 136, 137, 191
“White Heron, A,” Sara Orne Jewett, 169
Whitman, Walt, 5, 6, 76, 77, 94, 97 et seq., 105, 111, 114, 134, 153, 163, 165, 166, 168, 173, 174, 176, 179, 190, 197, 201, 226, 272
Wilder, Thornton, 214
Williams, Roger, 77, 96
Wilson, Edmund, 150
“Winesburg, Ohio,” Sherwood Anderson, 93
Woodberry, George E., 161
Woolf, Virginia, 145
Wordsworth, William, 175
“World as Will and Idea, The,” Schopenhauer, 85
Wright, Harold Bell, 123, 142
Writers, American revolutionary, 273 et seq. American, under capitalism, 272 et seq. part in Social Revolution, 279 et seq. revolutionary, 269–272 two groups, 281
Writers’ Congress, American, 269 et seq.
Writers, International Congress of, 279
Yates, chief of police, 293 et seq.
Zeno, 137
Zola, Emile, 7, 116
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STORY
THE UNWELCOME MAN (1917)
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RAHAB (1922)
CITY BLOCK (1922)
HOLIDAY (1923)
CHALK FACE (1924)
THE DEATH AND BIRTH OF DAVID MARKAND (1934)
HISTORY
OUR AMERICA (1919)
VIRGIN SPAIN (1926)
THE RE-DISCOVERY OF AMERICA (1929)
AMERICA HISPANA (1931)
CRITICISM
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
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