Word: dreiser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sixty years ago, when most scholars looked on American literature as a collection of crude provincial sentiment, Harvard had one undergraduate course in the subject. Now, after the genius of Poe and Melville, Whitman and Twain and James has finally been recognized, and after Dreiser and Faulkner and Pound have become world-renowned, Harvard...
...Theodore Dreiser, that shaggy old lion of American letters, sat in a library reference room reading St. Thomas Aquinas. Next to Dreiser sat Miss Fannie Hurst, author. They started to talk, and so fascinated was Dreiser by her remarks on Aquinas that he insisted on continuing the conversation even though she had to catch a plane to St. Louis. Dreiser, as Author Hurst now tells it, flew right along with her, but not before asking her husband if he had any objections. He did not. which leads Author Hurst to remark: "This throws a revealing light on my wonderful kind...
Comments Miss Hurst: "There I sat . . . with no words to console the massive Dreiser, who had almost missed God. He died a few months later...
...read one book by each of the young writers, just to keep in the swim. I think I've read all the first books written by Hemingway, Wolfe, Faulkner, Dreiser, and Wylie." No one influenced his style, however. Like Topsy, it just growed. "I don't know how I got it, I just can't write any other way now. When I was sixteen, I started experimenting with words. Then I got a job on the Atlanta Journal, police reporter. It taught me to write something every day, and now I put in a nine-to-five day, except when...
English 181, "Narration in the English Novel," and English 279, "Dreiser," both of which will be offered in the Spring, will be taught by Monroe Engel '42, assistant professor of English, and M. Arnavon, professor of English at the University of Dakar, respectively...