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town. As a man he set down what he saw with simplicity, truth and understanding in a series of great short stories - Winesburg, Ohio; The Triumph of the Egg; Horses and Men, and half-great novels -Windy McPherson's Son; Poor White; Dark Laughter. No first-rate U. S. writer since Walt Whitman has spent so much time just sitting and listening to people talk-drummers, race-track touts, rivermen, politicos, farmers, railroaders, tramps, trulls and small-town merchants. Since Whitman stood ";there in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim," few U. S. writers have been...
...next 20 years he told Americans things about themselves they had never quite understood before. After the first sensational impact of Winesburg, Ohio (1919), critics began to suggest that his characters were fantastic, that he was obsessed with sex, that his version of Ohio life was not a new kind of realism, but romantic. Anderson could have answered what the Russian peasants say: ";We are the dark people, we live in the dark villages." On that lonely darkness he tried all his life to shed light...
Critics smiled too at the Winesburg minister who was nightly tempted to climb into his steeple and play Peeping Tom on Schoolteacher Kate Swift. They did not know the sun-baked prairie where men, women and boys work all the hot dusty day in the fields and villages, and when released are pursued by strange longings which they chalk up in public places after dark. Critics smiled at the way Anderson's characters are forever springing through cornfields or dashing down the railroad tracks in the middle of the night. But Anderson understood that Americans are a people...
Died. Sherwood Anderson, 64, Ohio businessman who walked down the bed of a river, out of a successful paint business, into a vivid, dreamed world of his own, in describing which (Winesburg, Ohio; Poor White; Dark Laughter) he became for a time (roughly, the '205) one of America's great storytellers; in a Colon, Canal Zone hospital, whither he had been taken ailing with peritonitis from his South America-bound ship (TIME, March...
...seasons, the varied U. S. regions-corn country, cotton country, coal country; 2) the town boy lured by the city, the city man's wistful memory of his old home; 3) the interplay of life with life among people who know each other well. Something of the old Winesburg mystery glows through his gentle prose. But now the musings are less those of a rebel paint manufacturer, fed up with it all, than those of a small-town editor, himself jest folks...