Contents									ix
		The Waste Land 							490
		Burnt Norton 							506

	EUGENE O'NEILL (1888-1953) 						512
		The Emperor Jones 						514

	JOHN CROP RANSOM (1888-1974) 						540
		Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter 				541
		Piazza Piece 							542
		Janet Waking 							542

	CLAUDE MCKAY (1889-1948)		 				544
		If We Must Die 							545
		America 							545

	KATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1890-1980) 					546
		Flowering Judas 						547

	ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891-1960) 						559
		The Gilded Six-Bits		 				560

	ARCHIBALD MACLEISH (1892-1982) 						571
		Ars Poetica 							572

	EDNA ST.VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)		 			575
		Recuerdo 							574
		[I think I should have loved you presently] 			574
		[I, being born a woman and distressed] 				575
		Apostrophe to Man 						575
		[I too beneath your moon, almighty Sex] 			576
		Spring								576
		I Forgot for a Moment 						577

	DOROTHY PARKER (1893-1967) 						579
		General Review of the Sex Situation 				579

	E. E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962) 						580
		in Just- 							581
		Buffalo Bill's 							582
		the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls 		582
		next to of course god america i 				583
		if there be any heavens my mother will (all by herself) have 	583
		somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond 		584
		anyone lived in a pretty town 					585