Midwest portraits
Subtitle: a book of memories and friendships
By: by Harry Hansen.
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company
Published: 1923
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: American literature -- Middle West -- History and criticism.; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Middle West.; Middle West -- Intellectual life.; Middle West -- In literature.
Table of contents: title: Of an ancient tavern on a well-traveled highway.; title: Carl Sandburg, poet of the streets and of the prairie.; title: Forgotten shrines and episodes.; title: Sherwood Anderson, corn-fed mystic, historian of the middle age of man.; title: Three million marching men.; title: Of critics and cynics full is this buke.; title: Robert Herrick and Edgar Lee Masters, interpreters of our modern world.; title: Harriet Monroe, priestess of poetry.; title: Lew Sarett, prophet of the thunderdrums.; title: Wallace Smith and the symbolical and diabolical straight black line.; title: Ben Hecht, Pagliacci of the fire escape.