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1. EARLY 20TH CENTURY
AMERICAN LITERATURE

2. • 1934, WON INSTANT RECOGNITION FOR A STORY CALLED “THE DARING
YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE”
• HIS BEST STORY IS TITLED “MY NAME IS ARAM”
• HIS NOVEL “THE HUMAN COMEDY PUT HIM IN THE FRONT RANK OF
COMTEMPORARY AMERICAN WRITERS.
• 1940, HE WAS AWARDED THE PULTIZER PRIZE FOR HIS PLAY, THE TIME OF
YOUR LIFE, BUT HE REFUSED THE AWARD.
• HE WAS A GOOD FRIEND OF CARLOS BULOSAN AND OTHER FILIPINO
WRITERS IN CALIFORNIA.
• THE STORY LOCOMOTIVE TELLS US THAT MOST PEOPLE ARE TAKEN BY
APPEARANCES.
WILLIAM SAROYAN (1908-
1981)

3. • ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR SHORT STORY WRITERS OF THE LATE
NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES. HE IS ALSO KNOWN AS
“O.HENRY”
• O HENRY’S STORIES ARE CONCERNED WITH THE COMMON PEOPLE AS HE
MET AND KNEW THEM. THE STORIES ARE BRIEF, RAPIDLY TOLD AND A
SURPRISE ENDING.
• HIS WIDE EXPERIENCE, INTEREST IN HUMANITY, AND KINDLINESS MADE
HIM STANDOUT OUT AS A SHORT STORY WRITER.
• THE GIFT OF THE MAGI TELLS US THAT IF WE REALLY LOVE OUR LOVED
ONES, WE WILL GIVE THEM THE BEST GIFTS EVEN WE SACRIFICE OUR
PRECIOUS POSSESSIONS JUST TO BE ABLE TO BUY A GIFT FOR THE OTHER.
WILLIAM SYDNEY
PORTER(1862-1910)

4. • 1930, THE FIRST AMERICAN TO RECEIVED THE NOBEL PRIZE IN
LITERATURE.
• IT IS AWARDED FOR HIS POWERFUL AND VIVID ART OF
DESCRIPTION AND HIS ABILITY TO USE WIT AND HUMOR IN THE
CREATION OF THE ORIGINAL CHARACTERS.
• HIS FAMOUS WORKS ARE “THE MAIN STREETS (1920)”,
BOBBIT(1922), ARROWSMITH(1923), AND ELMER GANTRY (1927)
• THE STORY “THE HACK DRIVER” IS AS STORY OF A YOUNG LAW
GRADUATE WHO WANTS TO BECOME FAMOUS AND RICH.
SINCLAIR LEWIS(1885-1951)

5. • WAS A GAY, GENEROUS, CHIVALROUS SPIRIT WHO FOUND
JOY IN WRITING.
• 1913, HE AND HIS WIFE ALINE, ALSO A POET ENTERED THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH
• HIS WRITING IS ABOUT RELIGIOUS FAITH.
• HIS FAMOUS POEMS ARE “TREES”, AND “ROOFS”
JOYCE KILMER(1886-1918)

6. • ENJOYED GREAT POPULARITY AMONG HIS COUNTRYMEN.
• HE WROTE ON A WIDE VARIETY OF SUBJECTS AND AN EQUAL
VARIETY OF LITERARY FORMS, RANGING FROM AN
ARTHURIAN EPIC TO LYRICAL ROMANCES, BALLADS, AND
SIMPLE LYRICS.
• IN 1932, HE WAS AWARDED THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR
POETRY.
• HIS FAMOUS POEMS ARE “RICHARD CORY” AND “CALVARY”
EDWIN ARLINGTON
ROBINSON (1869-1935)

7. • WAS THE BEST KNOWN WOMAN POET OF HER TIME.
• HER POEMS ARE PASSIONATE UTTERANCES OF JOY AND PAIN
AND ARE FULL OF IMAGINATIVE INSIGHT.
• SWEETNESS OF MELODY IS HER OUTSTANDING QUALITY AS A
POET.
• HER FAMOUS POEMS ARE “ON HEARING A SYMPHONY OF
BEETHHOVEN”, AND “GOD’S WORLD”
EDNA ST. VINCENT
MILLAY(1892-1950)

8. • BECAME THE LEADER OF THE “FREE VERSE” GROUP THAT
SPRING UP SEEMINGLY OVERNIGHT.
• SHE MADE HER POETRY HER PROFESSION
• WAS AN AUTHORITY ON IMPRESSIONISM, AND
INTRODUCED TO AMERICA WHAT SHE TERMED
“POLYPHONIC VERSE”
• A POLYPHONIC VERSE IS A FREELY RYTHMICAL FORM OF
PROSE THAT EMPLOYS CHARACTERISTICS DEVICES OF VERSE
OTHER THAN STRICT METRE.
• HER FAMOUS POEM IS “PATTERNS”
AMY LOWELL(1874-1925)

9. • WAS ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN POETS IN CONTEMPORARY
AMERICA.
• IN 1916, HE WON NATIONAL NOTICE WITH HIS CHICAGO
POEMS, WHICH INCLUDE THA FAMOUS “CHICAGO”, AND
“FOG”
• HE WAS A POET OF THE PEOPLE, WRITING IN RYTHMIC,
COLORFUL LANGUAGE OF THE STREETS, FACTORIES, AND
FARMS.
• HE WON THE 1950 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY FOR HIS
COMPLETE POEMS.”
CARL SANDBURG(1878-1967)

10. • HE IS PROBABLY THE BEST KNOWN POET IN CONTEMPORARY
AMERICA.
• HIS WRITINGS WERE IGNORED BY MANY PUBLISHERS FOR
SOME YEARS BUT LATER GOT A SPEED RECOGNITION.
• HE LATER WON THE PULITZER PRICE IN AMERICA.
• IN HIS POEMS, HE PRESENTED HUMBLE LIFE SIMPLY AND
GRAPHICALLY,
• HIS HOMELY SUBJECTS AND KEEN INSIGHTS INTO LIFE ARE
OFTEN LACED WITH QUIET HUMOR AND WIT.
• HIS FAMOUS POEM IS TITLED “STOPPING BY WOODS ON A
SNOWY EVENING”
ROBERT FROST(1874-1963)

11. • HE IS AN AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT
• KNOWN FOR HIS SYMPATHY FOR THE LESS FORTUNATE AND
THE OPPRESSED.
• HIS ONE-ACT PLAY, “THE BEGGAR AND THE KING (1921)
CONTINUES TO BE POPULAR WITH IN BOTH THEATER AND
THE ACADEME FOR THE LASTING RELEVANCE OF ITS THEME.
WINTHROP PARKHURST(1891-1983)

12. ________________1. THE FIRST AMERICAN TO RECEIVED THE
NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE IN 1930.
________________2. BECAME THE LEADER OF THE “FREE VERSE”
GROUP THAT SPRING UP SEEMINGLY OVERNIGHT.
________________3. HE IS PROBABLY THE BEST KNOWN POET IN
CONTEMPORARY AMERICA.
________________4. HIS WRITING IS ABOUT RELIGIOUS FAITH.
________________5. HE WROTE ON A WIDE VARIETY OF SUBJECTS
AND AN EQUAL VARIETY OF LITERARY FORMS, RANGING FROM
AN ARTHURIAN EPIC TO LYRICAL ROMANCES, BALLADS, AND
SIMPLE LYRICS.
QUIZ ¼. SIR, ¼? YES ¼.

13. THAT’S THE BUZZER! I’M OUT!
CLASS DISMISSED!