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...John Dos Passos became a figure for national discussion when his Three Soldiers appeared two years ago. Its bitter, naturalistic tone was criticized by many as " disloyal." By others it was hailed as" the Truth about the War." Most critics agreed that it was a capable and occasionally brilliant piece of writing. Since then this young Harvard graduate has published a volume of poems, a volume of essays, painted a series of pictures which were exhibited in Manhattan and made two trips to Europe, from one of which he is at the moment making the return voyage. His novel...
...Dos Passos at a tea in Greenwich Village. He is a large-headed, stumbling figure, who appears far younger than he is (27). He talks as he walks, in starts and stumbles. He is unbelievably shy. He will sit for hours at a table, either talking brilliantly or listening to talk not so brilliant. Two days after I met him, the manuscript of Three Soldiers was in my hands. Dos Passos left for Spain before the book was published. He is curiously detached from active interest in his books after they are written...
...Story* Sequels seem to be out of favor with most prominent American authors - heaven knows why! Hergesheimer, Lewis, Gather, Wharton, Fitzgerald, Dos Passes, et cetera - not one of them seems to care about carrying his or her characters through more than a single volume. Except for James Branch Cabell with his elaborate lineage of Lichfield, the pleasant custom of introducing a favorite character from one book into another seems for the present to have fallen into desuetude among us, at least among the more pretentious of our writers. Which makes it all the more pleasant to come across a volume...
...immediate generation, a mere list of the most important poets will suggest others. Robert Hillyer, with five volumes already to his credit, stands first. After him, to mention only those who have had volumes of their own published, are John Dos Passos, Odell Shepard, J. L. McLane Jr., S. Foster Damon, and Royall Snow, along with the others of the recent "Eight...
...high name-in the critical world, and as substantial recognition as any among the younger American poets." He is already above and far beyond the University group, yet still close enough to his undergraduate days to be claimed by the present college generation. His classmate, Mr. Dos Passos, has issued two volumes of prose and one of verse which have earned him wide notice, at least as an earnest experimenter. Mr. McLane, whose student days are still more recent, has three books of verse to his credit. This is the roll of poets alone --and a partial one at that...