Research Catalog

Title

The William Stanley Braithwaite reader / edited by Philip Butcher.

Author

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962

Publication

• Ann Arbor [Michigan] : The University of Michigan Press, [1972]
• ©1972

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Details

Additional Authors

Butcher, Philip, 1918-2011

Description

xiii, 322 pages : 1 portrait; 24 cm

Uniform Title

Works. Selections (Butcher)

Alternative Title

Works.

Subject

• Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962
• Literature, Modern > History and criticism
• Literature, Modern
• Literatura Norte Americana (Historia E Critica)

Genre/Form

• Autobiography
• Autobiographies.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Personal correspondence.
• Correspondance privée.

Bibliography (note)

• "Books by William Stanley Braithwaite": p. 321-322.

Contents

Introduction -- I. Criticism (ca. 1906-1957) -- A grave wrong to the negro -- The lyrical poetry of the new laureate -- Robert Frost, new American poet -- Imagism: another view -- Amy Lowell again assails tradition -- The year in poetry -- The poems of James Weldon Johnson -- Introduction, The heart of a woman -- Some contemporary poets of the negro race -- Spring in New Hampshire -- A poet of his race -- The negro in American literature -- Introduction, Anthology of magazine verse for 1927 -- The novels of Jessie Fauset -- Poems of mood and substance -- Review of A history of American poetry, 1900-1940 -- Review of On these I stand -- Negro America's first magazine -- A tribute to W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, first editor of Phylon -- "Where did you get this?" (a footnote in the history of anonymous) -- The first negro novelist -- Claude McKay -- The passing of Alain Leroy Locke -- Alain Locke's relationship to the negro in American literature -- II. Autobiography and reminiscence (1908-1962) -- My journal -- The house under Arcturus -- I saw Frederick Douglass -- Memories of the Boston Transcript -- E. A. Robinson: "Poor devil, poor devil" -- Amy Lowell: the kind of person she was -- Mrs. Washburn -- III. Letters (1899-1962) -- To: -- L. C. Page & Co. (April 3, 1899) -- William Dean Howells (Oct. 7, 1899) -- Edmund C. Stedman (Feb. 2, 1900) -- Charles W. Chesnutt (Nov. 29, 1902) -- James D. Corrothers (Dec. 3, 1903) -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson (July 9, 1906) -- J. Max Barber (Jan. 5, 1907) -- Ray Stannard Baker (Oct. 3, 1907) -- New York World (1908) -- Brentano's (Temple Scott) (June 9, 1909) -- George W. Cable (Feb. 17, 1912) -- Emma K. Braithwaite (Aug. 4, 1912) -- Amy Lowell (Aug. 22, 1915) -- Amy Lowell (June 29, 1916) -- Maxwell Perkins (March 15, 1917) -- Lew Sarett (Oct. 6, 1919) -- Carl Sandburg (Nov. 14, 1920) -- Lew Sarett (Sept. 9, 1921) -- Edith Brower (Jan. 18, 1922) -- Claude McKay (Feb. 18, 1922) -- Mary Church Terrell (Oct. 6, 1922) -- Alain Locke (April 13, 1925) -- Chard Powers Smith (Aug. 13, 1925) -- Chard Powers Smith (Oct. 8, 1925) -- William Lyon Phelps (May 27, 1926) -- Alain Locke (June 28, 1926) -- George E. Haynes (Nov. 29, 1928) -- George E. Haynes (Dec. 26, 1928) -- Willard Huntington Wright (Jan. 26, 1929) -- W. E. B. Du Bois (Feb. 18, 1929) -- E. Merrill Root (Aug. 12, 1929) -- Miss Robinson (Jan. 3, 1930) -- Lawrence Lee (July 8, 1930) -- Nella Larsen (June 19, 1934) -- Benjamin Brawley (June 24, 1934) -- Florence Read (Dec. 2, 1934) -- Howard G. Schmitt (Dec. 1, 1935) -- Richard A. Carroll (Nov. 25, 1939) -- Olive Lindsay Wakefield (June 18, 1945) -- Sir Walter de la Mare (July 12, 1948) -- Philip Butcher (Jan. 18, 1950) -- Marianne Moore (Jan. 15, 1952) -- Benjamin W. Huebsch (1952) -- George F. Brown (1953) -- Burton J. Kline (Aug. 20, 1955) -- Charles S. Johnson (Feb. 2, 1958) -- J. Donald Adams (March 13, 1958) -- Ruby Altizer Roberts (May 14, 1958) -- Margaret Widdemer (Aug. 20, 1958) -- Robert Frost (March 23, 1959) -- Joseph Auslander (Aug. 19, 1959) -- James B. Meriwether (April 1, 1960) -- Christian science monitor (Feb. 24, 1962) -- Books by William Stanley Braithwaite

ISBN

• 0472081942
• 9780472081943

LCCN

72084343

OCLC

• ocm00552436
• 552436
• SCSB-8857626

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library