rienced or
from literature? What echoes of earlier poets do you find in his work?

2. Does the adjective _distinguished_ apply to his work? What are the
sources of his distinction? What evidences of fresh vision of old things
do you find? of unexpected and true associations and contrasts? of a
delicate sense for essential details that make a picture? of the power of
suggestive condensation? of ability to get an emotional effect through
irony?

3. Consider the following quotation from Mr. Eliot as illuminative of his
method of work: "The contemplation of the horrid or sordid by the artist
is the necessary and negative aspect of the impulse toward beauty."

4. It is interesting to make a special study of Mr. Eliot's management of
verse.

5. What, if any, temperamental defect is likely to interfere with his
development?

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Poems. 1920.
The Sacred Wood. Essays on Poetry and Criticism. 1921.
The Waste Land. 1922.
Also in: The Little Review, 4 ('17): May, June, September.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Ath. 1920, 1: 239.
Dial, 68 ('20): 781; 70 ('21): 336.
Freeman, 1 ('20): 381; 2 ('21): 593. (Conrad Aiken.)
Lond. Times, June 13, 1919: 322; Dec. 2, 1920: 795.
Nation, 110 ('20): 856.
Poetry, 10 ('17): 264; 16 ('20): 157; 17 ('21): 345.
New Statesman, 16 ('21): 418.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1920, 1921.

+John Erskine+--essayist, poet.

Born in New York City, 1879. A.B., Columbia, 1900; A.M., 1901; Ph.D.,
1903. Taught English at Amherst and Columbia. Since 1916, professor at
Columbia. Co-editor of the _Cambridge History of American Literature_.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent, and Other Essays. 1915.
The Shadowed Hour. 1917. (Poems.)
Democracy and Ideals, a Definition. 1920.
The Kinds of Poetry, and Other Essays. 1920.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Dial, 70 ('21): 347.
Outlook, 126 ('20): 377 (portrait).
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1920.

+Theodosia Faulks (Theodosia Garrison: Mrs. Frederic J. Faulks)+--poet.

Born at Newark, New Jersey, 1874. Educated in private schools.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Joy o' Life and Other Poems. 1909.
Earth Cry and Other Poems. 1910.
The Dreamers. 1917.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 16 ('02): 16 (portrait); 47 ('18): 398.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1917, 1921.

+Edna Ferber+--short-story writer, novelist.

Born at Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1887. Educa