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| Preface | |
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| Modern Period: 1910+1945 | |
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| Toward the Modern Age | |
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| Booker T. Washington (1856+1915) | |
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| from Up from Slavery | |
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| A Slave Among Slaves | |
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| The Struggle for an Education | |
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| Black Race and Red Race | |
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| Two Thousand Miles for a Five-Minute Speech | |
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| The Atlanta Exposition Address | |
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| from The Souls of Black Folk | |
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| Of Our Spiritual Strivings | |
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| Of the Sorrow Songs | |
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| The Song of the Smoke | |
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| Lift Every Voice and Sing | |
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| O Black and Unknown Bards | |
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| from Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man | |
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| The Creation | |
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| Cluster: Nature and Religion+Efficiency, Entrepreneurial Christianity, and the Rise of Machine Culture | |
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| Preface to Principles of Scientific Management | |
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| from Vitality Supreme | |
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| from The Dance of the Machines | |
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| from Theory of the Leisure Class | |
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| from The New Basis of Civilization | |
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| from The Man Nobody Knows, including ad. Shelton | |
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| from "Vaudeville at Angelus Temple." | |
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| from "Elmer Gantry and the Church in America | |
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| The Clerks | |
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| Momus | |
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| The Tree in Pamela''s Garden | |
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| The Professional Instinct | |
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| The Valley of Childish Things | |
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| The Other Two | |
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| The Life Apart (L''Gme close | |
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| The Eyes | |
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| Roman Fever | |
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| Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950) | |
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| from Spoon River Anthology | |
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| Petit, the Poet | |
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| Seth Compton | |
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| Lucinda Matlock | |
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| The Village Atheist | |
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| from The New Spoon River | |
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| Cleanthus Trilling | |
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| from Lichee Nuts | |
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| Ascetics and Drunkards. | |
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| Great Audiences and Great Poets | |
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| from The Harmony of Deeper Music | |
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| Not to See Sandridge Again | |
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| A Wagner MatinTe | |
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| Trifles | |
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| Credo | |
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| The Purse-Seine | |
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| Self-Criticism in February | |
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| The Bloody Sire | |
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| The Excesses of God | |
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| The Beauty of Things | |
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| Carmel Point | |
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| The Pasture | |
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| Mending Wall | |
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| The Road Not Taken | |
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| An Old Man''s Winter Night | |
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| The Oven Bird. | |
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| Out, Out | |
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| The Line-Gang | |
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| The Ax-Helve | |
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| Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | |
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| Desert Places | |
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| Once by the Pacific | |
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| Design | |
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| Provide, Provide | |
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| Directive | |
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| Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) | |
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| Hands | |
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| Death in the Woods | |
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| Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) | |
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| The Second Choice | |
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| Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) | |
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| First Fig | |
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| Spring | |
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| The Spring and the Fall | |
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| [Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare] | |
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| Dirge Without Music | |
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| [Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink] | |
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| The Return | |
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| [Here lies, and none to mourn him but the sea] | |
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| [His stalk the dark delphinium] | |
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| Sonnet xli | |
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| Sonnet xcv | |
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| Justice Denied in Massachusetts | |
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| Cluster Aesthetics-High Art, Popular Culture, and Politics | |
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| from The Seven Lively Arts | |
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| Current Fashions | |
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| from Beauty-The New Business Tool | |
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| From Propaganda | |
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| New Masses Novel Contest | |
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| From A Note on Literary Criticism | |
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| Alienation and Literary Experimentation | |
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| A Virginal | |
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| A Pact | |
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| In a Station of the Metro. L''art, 1910 | |
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| A Retrospect. from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts): E.P. Ode pour L''electionde Son Sepulchre; Yeux Glauques; Siena mi fe''; Disfecemi Maremma; Brennbaum; Mr. Nixon; Envoi (1919) | |
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| The Cantos | |
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| I [And then went down to the ship] | |
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| XIII [Kung walked] | |
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| XLV [With usura hath no | |
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| man a house of good stone] | |
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| LXXXI [Yet/Ere the season died a-cold] | |
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| CXX [I have tried to write Paradise] | |
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| Amy Lowell (1874-1925) | |
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| A Lady | |
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| Patterns | |
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| The Letter | |
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| Summer Rain | |
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| Venus Transiens | |
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| Madonna of the Evening Flowers | |
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| Wakefulness | |
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| Grotesque | |
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| The Sisters | |
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