Modernism

Featured author for this period...

Ernest Hemingway

• • The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park - a "Hemingway Around the Web" site with valuable links for research.

  • Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure - a neat site from PBS, this resource will help you draw connections between the author's work and his life.

  • "The Dangerous Spring: Ernest Hemingway's Spring"- an interesting article from the Washington Post. 

  • Nobel e-Museum: Ernest Hemingway - visit the official website of the Nobel Foundation and read Hemingway's biography, his Nobel prize acceptance speech and more. 

  •  Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • • Short Story: "In Another Country" -p. 809

  • Additional Resources:

    • • Short Story: "Hills Like White Elephants" (handout)

Even more to explore...

Sherwood Anderson  

• • Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life- links to the full e-text from Bartleby.com

  • Perspectives in American Literature: Sherwood Anderson- a great research source from California State University

  •  Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • •   Short Story: "The Corn Planting" -p. 815

  • Additional Resources:

    • • Short Story: "The Egg" (handout)

W.H. Auden

• • W.H. Auden- from the Academy of American poets, biographical information and links to some of his works

  •  Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • • Poem: "The  Unknown Citizen" -p. 777 

e. e. cummings

• • e.e. cummings- a page from the Academy of American Poets with biographical information and e-texts.

  •  Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • • Poem: "old age sticks" -p. 774

      • Poem: "anyone lived in a pretty how town" -p. 775 

H.D. 

• • H.D.  - from the Academy of American poets, biographical information and links to some of her works.

  •  Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • • Poem: "Pear Tree" -p. 735   

      • Poem: "Heat" -p. 736

T.S. Eliot

• • Modern American Poetry: T.S. Eliot - from the Department of English at the University of Illinois, this site offers biographical information as well as links to selected works and analysis/criticism

  • T.S. Eliot-  from the Academy of American poets, biographical information and links to some of his works

  •  Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • • Poem: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" -p. 716 

William Faulkner   

• • William Faulkner, Biography- from the Nobel Foundation

  • Mississippi Writers Page: William Faulkner -from the English Department of the University of Mississippi, an extensive biography and more.

  •  Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • • Short Story: "A Rose for Emily" -p.862

      • Speech: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech -p. 875 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby 

Robert Frost

• • Robert Frost- from the Academy of American poets, biographical information and links to some of his works

  • Modern American Poetry: Robert Frost - from the Department of English at the University of Illinois, this site offers biographical information as well as links to selected works and analysis/criticism

  • Perspectives in American Literature: Robert Frost- a great research source from California State University. 

  • Robert Frost Farm: Derry, NH - Never been there? Here's a virtual look at what's just 20 minutes away from LHS.

  • Robert Frost: Online Resources - comprehensive, multi-media resources from the Library of Congress.

  •  Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • • Poem: "Birches" -p. 882

      • Poem:  "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" -p. 885

      • Poem: "Mending Wall" -p. 886

      • Poem: "Out, Out" -p. 888

      • Poem: "The Gift Outright" -p. 890

      • Poem: "Acquainted with the Night" -p. 892

Archibald MacLeish

• • Archibald MacLeish- from the Academy of American poets, biographical information and links to some of his works.

  • Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • • Poem: "Ars Poetica" -p. 796

Edgar Lee Masters

• • Modern American Poetry: Edgar Lee Masters - from the Department of English at the University of Illinois, this site offers biographical information as well as links to selected works and analysis/criticism. 

  • Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources

    • • Poem: "Lucinda Matlock" -p. 663

      • Poem: "Richard Bone" -p. 664

Marianne Moore

• • Marianne Moore- from the Academy of American poets, biographical information and links to some of her works. 

  • Modern American Poetry: Marianne Moore- from the Department of English at the University of Illinois, this site offers biographical information as well as links to selected works and analysis/criticism.

  •  Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources

    • • Poem: "Poetry" -p. 798

Ogden Nash

 Ogden Nash Online - selected works and lots of links.

Katherine Anne Porter

• • American Masters: Katherine Anne Porter-  interesting information from PBS 

  • Perspectives in American Literature: Katherine Anne Porter-  a great research source from California State University. 

  • Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • • Short Story: "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” -p. 848

Edwin Arlington Robinson

• • Modern American Poetry: Edward Arlington Robinson - from the Department of English at the University of Illinois, this site offers biographical information as well as links to selected works and analysis/criticism.

  •  Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • • Poem: "Luke Havergal" -p. 660

      • Poem: "Richard Cory" -p. 662

Wallace Stevens 

• • Wallace Stevens- from the Academy of American poets, biographical information and links to some of his works. 

  • Modern American Poetry: Wallace Stevens - from the Department of English at the University of Illinois, this site offers biographical information as well as links to selected works and analysis/criticism.

  • Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • • Poem: "Of Modern Poetry" -p. 794

      • Poem: "Anecdote of the Jar" -p. 795

John Steinbeck

• • Cannery Row 

  • The Grapes of Wrath

James Thurber 

• • The Thurber House: A Literary Center for Writers and Readers- an interesting site offering lots of information on Thurber.

  • Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • • Essay: "The Night the Ghost Got In" -p. 898

Eudora Welty

• • The Eudora Welty Foundation 

  • Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • • Short Story: "A Worn Path" -p. 820

William Carlos Williams

• • William Carlos Williams- from the Academy of American poets, biographical information and links to some of his works. 

  • Modern American Poetry: William Carlos Williams- from the Department of English at the University of Illinois, this site offers biographical information as well as links to selected works and analysis/criticism. 

  • Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • • Poem: "The Red Wheelbarrow" -p. 733

      • Poem: "The Great Figure" -p. 733

      • Poem: "This is Just to Say" -p. 734

Thomas Wolfe

• • Thomas Wolfe Memorial 

  • Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • • Short Story: "The Far and the Near" -p. 784

E.B. White 

• • New York Times Books: Life & Times- E.B. White- an extensive resource with many great links.

  • Meet the Author: E.B. White- a resource from Houghton Mifflin.

  • Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:

    • • Excerpt from Essay: "Here is New York" -p. 903

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Overall "Text to World" & "Text to Text" Connections for this Literary Period

• • American Memory Timeline - from the Learning Page at The Library of Congress, this link will help you connect American history to American literature.

Works Cited

The American Experience. New Jersey.  Prentice Hall Literature, 1991.