Contents x
JAMES THURBER (1894-1961) 587
The Secret Life of Walter Milty 587
JEAN TOOMER (1894-1967) 593
Georgia Dusk 594
Fern 595
F SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940) 600
Babylon Revisited 601
LOUISE BOGAN (1897-1970) 621
Medusa 622
Portrait 623
The Alchemist 623
The Crows 624
Women 624
WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962) 626
That Evening Sun 627
ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961) 643
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber 645
HART CRANE (1899-1952) 672
At Melville's Tomb 673
Voyages 674
To Brooklyn Bridge 676
STERLING A. BROWN (1901-1989) 678
He Was a Man 679
Break of Day 681
Bitter Fruit of the Tree 682
LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967) 683
The Negro Speaks ofRivers 684
Mother to Son 685
The Weary Blues 685
The South 686
Ruby Brown 687
Let America Be America Again 688
Poet to Patron 690
Ballad ofthe Landlord 691
Too Blue 692
Theme for English B 693 Poet to Bigot 694
I, Too 694