The
Man Masterful: One-Act Plays of Contemporary Life. 1911.
Tradition, with On Bail, Their Wife, Waiting, The Cheat of Pity, and
Mothers: One-Act Plays of Contemporary Life, 1913.
Nowadays; a Contemporaneous Comedy. 1914.
Criminals; a One-Act Play about Marriage. 1915.
Back of the Ballot; a Woman Suffrage Farce in One Act. 1915.
Possession, with The Groove, The Unborn, Circles, A Good Woman, The
Black-Tie: One-Act Plays of Contemporary Life. 1915.
The Road Together; a Contemporaneous Drama in Four Acts. 1916.
Masks, Jim's Beast, Tides, Among the Lions, The Reason, The House:
One-Act Plays of Contemporary Life. 1920. (With Guy Bolton.)
For bibliography of unpublished work, see _Who's Who in America_.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 51 ('20): 472.
Cur. Op. 56 ('14): 376 (portrait); 68 ('20): 783 (portrait).
Freeman, 1 ('20): 449.
Nation, 110 ('20): 693.
New Repub. 24 ('20): 26.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1913-6, 1920.
+Lloyd Mifflin+--poet.
Born at Columbia, Pennsylvania, 1846. Son of an artist. Educated at
Washington Classical Institute and by tutors. Studied art with his father
and in Germany and Italy. Began as a painter, but later turned to poetry.
Is best known for his sonnets, the form in which most of his poetry is
written. These may be studied in his _Collected Sonnets_, 1905 (revised
edition, 1907), although several volumes have been published since then.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Cur. Lit. 39 ('05): 106 (portrait).
Dial, 40 ('06): 125; 47 ('09): 100.
Nation, 81 ('05): 17, 508.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1905.
+Edna St. Vincent Millay+--poet, dramatist.
Born at Rockland, Maine, 1892. A.B., Vassar, 1917. Connected with the
Provincetown players both as dramatist and as actress.
Miss Millay's first poem, "Renascence," was published in _The Lyric
Year_, 1912.
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
1. The poems need to be read aloud to give the full effect of their
passion and lyric beauty.
2. Compare Miss Millay's naivete with that of Blake. Do you find
suggestions of philosophy behind it or sheer emotion?
3. Does Miss Millay's later work show growth toward greatness or toward
sophisticated cleverness?
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Renascence and other Poems. 1917.
A Few Figs from Thistles: Poems and Four Sonnets. 1920.
Aria da Capo. 1920. (Play; published in _The Monthly Chapbook_, 1920.)
Second April. 1921.
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