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Indiana 1030
The Tunnel 1032
A Literature of Social and Cultural Challenge 1037
Drama between the Wars 1037
Primitivism 1037
The Roaring Twenties and the Lost Generation 1039
Depression and Totalitarian Menace 1040
Timeline: A Literature and Social and Cultural Challenge 1043
Eugene O’Neill (1888—1953 1045
The Hairy Ape 1048
Robinson Jeffers (1887—1962) 1076
To the Stone-Cutters 1078
Roan Stallion 1078
Boats in a Fog 1091
Shine, Perishing Republic 1092
The Purse-Seine 1092
Claude McKay (1889—1948) 1094
The Harlem Dancer 1094
Harlem Shadows 1095
America 1095
Outcast 1096
Archibald Macleish (1892—1982) 1096
Ars Poetica 1098
You, Andrew Marvell 1098
Immortal Autumn 1099
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892—1950) 1100
First Fig 1101
[I Shall Go Back Again to the Bleak Shore] 1101
[What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why] 1101
[She Had a Horror He Would Die at Night] 1102
Justice Denied in Massachusetts 1102
[This Beast That Rends Me in the Sight of All] 1103
[Since of No Creature Living the Last Breath] 1103
[Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink] 1104
[Even in the Moment of Our Earliest Kiss] 1104
[Those Hours When Happy Hours Were MY Estate] 1104
[I Will Put Chaos into Fourteen Lines] 1105