Favorite US Book 1920-1924

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Option	Votes
TS Eliot- The Wasteland (1922)	4
Edith Wharton- The Age of Innocence (1920)	3
Sinclair Lewis- Babbitt (1922)	2
F. Scott Fitzgerald- This Side of Paradise (1920)	2
Marianne Moore- Observations (1924)	2
Jean Toomer- Cane (1923)	2
William Carlos Williams- Spring & All (1923)	2
Emily Post- Etiquette (1922)	1
ee cummings- The Enormous Room (1922)	1
William Carlos Williams- Kora in Hell (1920)	1
Wallace Stevens- Harmonium (1923)	1
T.S. Eliot- The Sacred Wood (1920)	1
Edith Wharton- Glimpses of the Moon (1922)	0
Edith Wharton- Old New York (1924)	0
Willa Cather- A Lost Lady (1923)	0
Ernest Hemingway- Three Stories & Ten Poems (1923)	0
Ring Lardner- How to Write Short Stories (1924)	0
Robert Frost- New Hampshire (1923)	0
Mina Loy- Lunar Baedecker (1923)	0
Edna St. Vincent Millay- The Ballad of the Harp Weaver (1923)	0
F. Scott Fitzgerald- Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)	0
Sinclair Lewis- Main Street (1920)	0
Andrew Carnegie- Autobiography (1920)	0
Conrad Aiken- The House of Dust: A Symphony (1920)	0
T.S. Eliot- Poems (1920)	0
Ezra Pound- Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (1920)	0
Eugene O’Neill- Anna Christie (1921)	0
John Dos Passos- Three Soldiers (1921)	0
Booth Tarkington- Alice Adams (1921)	0
Amy Lowell- Legends (1921)	0
Edna St. Vincent Millay- Second April (1921)	0
Eugene O’Neill- The Hairy Ape (1922)	0
Willa Cather- One of Ours (1922)	0
Willa Cather- Youth & Bright Medusa (1920)	0
John Crowe Ransom- Chills & Fever (1924)	0

― mulla atari, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 00:32 (eighteen years ago)

seems unfair to put poems and fiction together, still, the Wasteland FTW!

― akm, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 00:39 (eighteen years ago)

Harmonium!

― mulla atari, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 00:40 (eighteen years ago)

yeah "the waste land," though i'd love to read "the enormous room" someday.

― J.D., Wednesday, 27 February 2008 00:41 (eighteen years ago)

H.P. Lovecraft publishes "The Tomb" in 1923. Not a book, but then he never really managed one of those.

― contenderizer, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 00:42 (eighteen years ago)

Kora In Hell vs Spring And All! I didn't expect it to be a WCW-off!

― Casuistry, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 00:50 (eighteen years ago)

Harmonium, for the win.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

i really hate modernism, eugh

― The Brainwasher, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

post-modernism/hyper/magic-realism ftw thank you.

― The Brainwasher, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

i voted for Cane though

― The Brainwasher, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, see, that's why I'm saying Spring in Hell vs Kora and All, both of which are postmodernist texts, just early ones. Or, alternatively, there isn't much of a diff between modernism and postmodernism.

― Casuistry, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 00:55 (eighteen years ago)

i think may texts that are held up as the standards of modernism (sound and the fury, wasteland, ulysses, the waves) are pretty clearly the precursors to postmodernism and I don't see a big distinction there. I suppose Henry James is a bit different but I have a hard time reconciling him with the others.

― akm, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:00 (eighteen years ago)

Marianne Moore

― 2for25, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:07 (eighteen years ago)

The Emperor of Ice-Cream

Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

Take from the dresser of deal,
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:26 (eighteen years ago)

Babbitt

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:30 (eighteen years ago)

Torn between Toomer and Lardner!

― nabisco, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:40 (eighteen years ago)

Harmonium

― remy bean, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 02:19 (eighteen years ago)

Chris P. OTM, Kora in Hell and Spring and All are two of the greatest things ever written by any American. This is a really tough poll though, agonizingly hard in some ways.

― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 02:48 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, Spring and All is definitely a runner up for me.

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 03:06 (eighteen years ago)

Which three stories were in that Hemingway book?

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 03:07 (eighteen years ago)

"Out of Season" "My Old Man" and "Up in Michigan." First two later showed up in In Our Time.

― mulla atari, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 03:23 (eighteen years ago)

i really hate modernism, eugh
-- The Brainwasher

The "eugh" says it all.

― M.V., Wednesday, 27 February 2008 04:16 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Monday, 3 March 2008 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

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