American harvest : twenty years of creative writing in the United States / edited by Allen Tate and John Peale Bishop.

Author/creator Tate, Allen editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : L.B. Fischer, [1942]
Description544 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Other author/creatorBishop, John Peale, 1892-1944 editor.
Other author/creatorCheney, Frances Neel, 1906-1996 former owner.
Other author/creatorCheney, Brainard, 1900-1990, former owner.
Other author/creatorWarren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 autographer.
Other author/creatorCaldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987 autographer.
Other author/creatorLytle, Andrew Nelson, 1902-1995 autographer.
Other author/creatorWelty, Eudora, 1909-2001 autographer.
Other author/creatorShapiro, Karl, 1913-2000 autographer.
Other author/creatorTate, Allen, 1899-1979 former owner.
Contents The Undefeated / Ernest Hemingway -- The Egg / Sherwood Anderson -- The Devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benet -- The Sculptor's Funeral / Willa Cather -- Haircut / Ring Lardner -- Red, White and Blue Thanksgiving / John Dos Passos -- The Tuxedos / Jerome Weidman -- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- When the Light Gets Green / Robert Penn Warren -- Priming the Well / Erskine Caldwell -- Jericho, Jericho, Jericho / Andrew Nelson Lytle -- In the Sleeper / Thomas Wolfe -- Silent Snow, Secret Snow / Conrad Aiken -- Ash-Wednesday / T.S. Eliot -- Poetry / Marianne Moore -- The Monkeys / Marrianne Moore -- Eros Turannos ; Luke Havergal / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Stopping by Woods on a Showy Evening ; Mending Wall / Robert Frost -- The Cameo ; Sonnet LII / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The Emperor of Ice-Cream ; Sunday Morning / Wallace Stevens -- Henceforth, from the Mind / Louise Bogan -- Country Summer ; The Mount / Leonie Adams -- Hasbrouck and the Rose / Phelps Putnam -- This Amber Sunstream ; It Is a Moveless Moment / Mark Van Doren -- Concord / Van Wyck Brooks -- Emily Dickinson / R. P. Blackmur -- The Ambiguity of Henry James / Edmund Wilson -- Tradition and the individual Talent / T. S. Eliot -- Jean le Negre / E. E. Cummings -- The Sailor / Glenway Wescott -- Defeat / Kay Boyle -- Sunday Races / Start Young -- A Rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- Christine / Julian Green -- Petrified Man / Eudora Welty -- The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse -- Preface to Conquistador / Archibald MacLeish -- Ode ; Perspectives are Precipices / John Peale Bishop -- To Brooklyn Bridge ; Voyages II / Hart Crane -- Two Sonnets / E. E. Cummings -- Tetelestai / Conrad Aiken -- Ode to the Confederate Dead ; Aeneas at Washington / Allen Tate -- Captain Carpenter ; Blue Girls / John Crowe Ransom -- Cool Tombs ; Losers / Carl Sandburg -- The Botticellian Trees ; Poem I / William Carlos Williams -- Scyros / Karl Shapiro -- In the Naked Bed, in Plato's Cave / Delmore Schwartz -- The Captive / Caroline Gordon -- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter -- The Red Pony / John Steinbeck.
Local noteAutographed on front fly-leaf "Allen Tate" and inscribed "For Fanny & Lon [Brainerd Cheney] with love from Allen [Tate], October 17, 1942." Autographed on p. 126 "Robert Penn Warren," p. 134 "Erskine Caldwell," p. 140 "Andrew Nelson Lytle," p. 378 "Eudora Welty" and p. 439 "Karl Shapiro." Includes dust jacket. Laid in: Allen Tate, Sewanee, Tennessee, Christmas letter to Mr. and Mrs. Brainerd Cheney, Smyrna, Tennessee (December 1968) Printed. Stuart Wright Book Collection #52.92. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Allen Tate Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
Bibliography noteBibliographical notes: p. 534-544.
References Squires, R. Allen Tate, p. 311
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2010
Issued in other formOnline version: Tate, Allen, 1899-1979. American harvest. New York, L.B. Fischer [1942]
LCCN 42023613

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Joyner Stuart Wright Collection PS536 .T3 1942 ✔ Available Request Material