Chapter I: Poe at Last (6)

“Winesburg, Ohio,” Sherwood Anderson, 93

Woodberry, George E., 161

Woolf, Virginia, 145

Wordsworth, William, 175

“World as Will and Idea, The,” Schopenhauer, 85

Wright, Harold Bell, 123, 142

Writers, American revolutionary, 273 _et seq._
American, under capitalism, 272 _et seq._
part in Social Revolution, 279 _et seq._
revolutionary, 269–272
two groups, 281

Writers’ Congress, American, 269 _et seq._

Writers, International Congress of, 279

Yates, chief of police, 293 _et seq._

Zeno, 137

Zola, Emile, 7, 116

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_by Waldo Frank_

STORY

THE UNWELCOME MAN (1917)
THE DARK MOTHER (1920)
RAHAB (1922)
CITY BLOCK (1922)
HOLIDAY (1923)
CHALK FACE (1924)
THE DEATH AND BIRTH OF DAVID MARKAND (1934)

HISTORY

OUR AMERICA (1919)
VIRGIN SPAIN (1926)
THE RE-DISCOVERY OF AMERICA (1929)
AMERICA HISPANA (1931)

CRITICISM

THE ART OF THE VIEUX COLOMBIER (1918)

SALVOS (1924)

PRIMER MENSAJE À LA AMÉRICA HISPANA (1930)
(_published only in Spanish—Madrid and Buenos Aires_)

DAWN IN RUSSIA (1932)

IN THE AMERICAN JUNGLE (1937)

THEATRE

NEW YEAR’S EVE (1930)

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Footnote 1:

Arturo Mom, the Argentinian writer, tells us that Lenin once said:
“Chaplin is the only man in the world I want to meet.” It is a story
readily believed. Chaplin’s art expresses the germinal seed of the
revolt—tender and ruthless, romantic and realistic—which Lenin’s
technique attempted to fulfill. Chaplin and Lenin—they are probably
the two most potential spirits of our age. Bring them together—pure
individualist and pure collectivist—into a single force, and you have
a vision of tomorrow.

Footnote 2:

The year of his trouble with his second wife, the truth about which
has not been told.

Footnote 3:

See “The Re-discovery of America,” 1928.

Footnote 4:

This is a short version of the Introduction to “The Collected Poems of
Hart Crane.”

Footnote 5:

El Escorial.

Footnote 6:

Bertrand Russell says, “Traditional mysticism has been contemplative,
convinced of the unreality of time, and essentially a lazy man’s
philosophy.” It has always seemed to me that the mysticism of Mr.
Frank’s novels was of this traditional type.

Footnote 7:

“Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished,” in the Valentine
Museum at Richmond, Virginia; with introductory essay and commentary
by Mary Newton Stanard.

Footnote 8:

I feel moved to recall that in “Our America,” a work with a kindred
theme published in 1919, Poe receives even unfairer treatment than
that accorded him by Mr. Mumford; and Melville is utterly ignored.

Footnote 9:

The reader of “The Re-Discovery of America” will know that I find
important exceptions to this general statement.

Footnote 10:

We have in America a logician who, obscurely and unaided, is working
out the fundamental problem of the dualistic languages of modern
culture, and who is relating them into a logic of the Whole. His name
is Scudder Klyce and he resides in Winchester, Massachusetts. He has
published three books: “Universe,” “Sins of Science,” “Dewey’s
Suppressed Psychology.” In the first (which I have not yet read), he
attempts to establish continuity, or the Whole, in purely empirical
terms and to construct a logic to express it. In the second, he
exposes (often brilliantly and at times wildly) the contradictory
dualisms in modern thought. The third volume, as invaluable as it is
unwieldy, reveals the failure of John Dewey to carry his own “infinite
pluralism” to its logical conclusion: an explicit philosophy of the
Whole.... So it goes in our America. Just as one is getting ready to
despair of the current tendencies, along comes a man like Klyce who is
doing work as essential and great as any I know in the contemporary
world. I was not aware of Klyce when I wrote “The Re-Discovery of
America.” That is my excuse for not mentioning his contribution and
its organic part in what I call the Great American Tradition.

P.S. Since the writing of this note, Scudder Klyce has died. The first
work to acknowledge the greatness of his contribution has yet to be
published. But it will come!

Footnote 11:

Not to be confused, of course, with the athletic _skepticism_ that is
the servant of positive knowledge.

Footnote 12:

The reader will find a development of this idea in “The Re-Discovery
of America.”

Footnote 13:

A short time after this article was written and published, the five
hundred thousand textile strikers were sold out by their “leaders” in
Washington.

Footnote 14:

Since this was written, a strong revolutionary students’ movement has
sprung up in the United States.

Footnote 15:

I have read only three volumes of Marxist literary criticism in the
English language: “The Liberation of American Literature,” by V. F.
Calverton; “The Great Tradition,” by Granville Hicks; and a short book
by John Strachey. All three are of this category.

Footnote 16:

The author accompanied Earl Browder, communist candidate for President
of the United States, on a tour of Midwest industrial cities as a
newspaper correspondent and was jailed with him in Terre Haute.

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