 | Modern English readings by Roger Sherman Loomis | DromJohn | Florence Nightingale, Lytton Strachey, J. E. B. Stuart, Gamaliel Bradford, Abraham Lincoln the prairie years, Carl Sandburg, Four years in a shed, Eve Curie, Elizabeth Arden Glamour Inc., Margaret Case Harriman, My brother Steve, William Rose Benét, Life with father, Clarence Day, Early impressions, Henry Adams, Rowing, Oliver La Farge, University days, James Thurber, The Modern gothic, Vincent Sheean, Flyers are inarticulate, Beirne Lay Jr., Brave men, Ernie Pyle, The Gentle giantess, Charles Lamb, On going a journey, William Hazlitt, Sounds, Henry David Thoreau, Crabbed age and youth, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hunting the deceitful turkey, Mark Twain, How shall I word it?, Max Beerbohm, Mr. Dooley on the education of the young, Finley Peter Dunne, Codfish chowder and sun, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, From Spargo to Carver to Speaker, Heywood Brown, A Garland of ibids, Frank Sullivan, Spring comes to the farm, Betty Fible Martin, Of goodness, Elizabeth Jackson, Of reading books, John Livingston Lowes, The pursuit of values in fiction, Dorothy Brewster, Angus Burrell, The Novels of Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Outline for a defense of poetry, Earl Daniels, Writing prose, W. Somerset Maugham, Vocabulary and success, Johnson O'Connor, On jargon, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Cliché expert, Stabilizing the language through popular songs, Sigmund Spaeth, Excerpts from a dictionary of modern english usage, H. W. Fowler, The Daily theme eye, Walter Prichard Eaton, Letters to the editor, Clifton Fadiman, Stuart Pratt, The Film story of GI Joe, Manny Farber, The Film Grapes of Wrath, John Mosher, Riveters, Editors of Fortune, Three kinds of hash, William Rhode, Why an airplane flies, Wolfgang Langewiesche, How to mark a book, Mortimer Adler, The Yankee school, George Lyman Kittredge, Propaganda techniques of German fascism, Clyde R. Miller, Marco Polo, Eileen Power, Four kinds of thinking, James Harvey Robinson, Gate receipts and glory, Robert M. Hutchins, The American student as I see him, Gilbert Highet, Education and freedom, Even A.B.'s must eaat, Ernest Earnest, Alumni and civic responsibility, C. Robert Pace, Free speech in America, Zechariah Chafee Jr., The Radio boom and the public interest, Bernard B. Smith, Liberty for what?, Alexander Meiklejohn, America, Dorothy Thompson, The Citizen's charter, Geoffrey Crowther, The Lesson of TVA, David E. Lilienthal, When can the atom be put to work?, Harry M. Davis, Modern man is obsolete, Norman Cousins, Walt Whitman and the peace, Robert A. Hume, Petty Anglo-American differences, Thomas W. Lamont, A Texan in England, J. Frank Dobie, Dialogue on Gorki Street, John Hersey, Apology for man, Earnest A. Hooton, Evolution and ethics, Thomas Henry Huxley, Why is God silent while evil rages?, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Infallibility, John Henry Newman, The Tell-tale heart, Edgar Alllan Poe, A Lodging for the night, Night club, Katharine Brush, Paul's cave, Willa Cather, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Stephen Vincent Benét, The Garden party, Katherine Mansfield, I can't breathe, Ring Lardner, But it's o! in my heart, Joan Vatsek, The Day of victory, Howard Fast, The Three swimmers and the grocer from Yale, William Saroyan, The Veterans reflect, Irwin Shaw, Salesmanship, Mary Ellen Chase, Guidance, Margaret Widdemer, Mrs. Packletide's tiger, Saki, The End of something, Ernest Hemingway, Breakfast, John Steinbeck, The First day, James Reid Parker, Riders to the sea, John Millington Synge, The Fall of the city, Archibald MacLeish, Beyond the horizon, Eugene O'Neill, The Green pastures, Marc Connelly, You can't take it with your, Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman, Good heavens, Norman Corwin, The Sacrilege, Thomas Hardy, The Ballad of east and west, Rudyard Kipling, Farewell to barn and stack and tree, A. E. Housman, Abraham Lincoln, A Ballad maker, Padraic Colum, Jesse James, Robin Hood rescuing the widow's three sons, Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle, John Hay, Skipper Ireson's ride, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ballad of Old Doc Higgins, Leonora Speyer, The Haystack in the floods, William Morris, The Raid on Harper's Ferry, The Blindman, Hervey Allen, Saul Kane's fight, John Masefield, Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson, My last duchess, Robert Browning, The Death of the hired man, Robert Frost, The Listeners, Walter de la Mare, The Santa Fé Trail, Vachel Lindsay, Ode to the west wind, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode on a Grecian urn, John Keats, Pioneers! o pioneers, Walt Whitman, Chicago, Ode to the Confederate dead, Allen Tate, Willie brewed a peck o'maut, Robert Burns, Sweet Afton, Auld lang syne, Break break break, The Splendor falls, Marching along, When I am dead my dearest, Christina Rossetti, The Night has a thousand eyes, F. W. Bourdillon, Gaudeamus igitur, John Addington Symonds, Rugby chapel, Matthew Arnold, My sister's sleep, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Eagle that is forgotten, Deirdre, James Stephens, To an athlete dying young, A. E, Housman, A Soldier, The Time I've lost in wooing, Thomas Moore, Rondeau, Leigh Hunt, Love in a cottage, Nathaniel Parker Willis, A Letter of advice, Thomas Hood Jr., A Terrible infant, Frederick Locker-Lampson, Ballade made in the hot weather, William Ernest Henley, The Villanelle, The Ballad of prose and rhyme, Arthur Dobson, The Ballad of the dead ladies, François Villon, The Twentieth century gets through, E. B. White, Ad leuconoen, Franklin P. Adams, The Latest decalogue, Arthur Hugh Clough, Miniver Cheevy, Edwin Arlington Robinson, From lines to John Lapraik, Reform in our town, Bert Leston Taylor, Publicity, Lee Wilson Dodd, Base details, Siegfried Sassoon, Next to of course god, e. e. cummings, London snow, Robert Bridges, Autumn in Cornwall, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Stopping by woods on a snowy evening, Sea-fever, Strange holiness, After dry weather, Mark Van Doren, Loveliest of trees, Poem for the time of change, The study in aesthetics, Ezra Pound, To a locomotive in winter, The Express, Stephen Spender, October hills, Thomas S. Jones Jr., Love's philosophy, Sonnet, When we two parted, Lord Byron, Lovesight, Mid rapture, A Birthday, If though must love me, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet for Svanhild, Joseph Auslander, Oh think not I am faithful to a vow!, Edna St. Vincent Milay, Prelude, Richard Aldington, An Interlude, Epilogue, I can no more hear love's voice, Jose Garcia Villa, From in memoriam, Prospice, Dover Beach, Invictus, To fight aloud is very brave, Emily Dickinson, Fire on the hills, Robinson Jeffers, Impiety, Helene Margaret, The Pyre, Morning song, Conrad Aiken, Pied beauty, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Still falls the rain, Edith Sitwell, Journey of the magi, T. S. Eliot, The Song of the shirt, Thomas Hood, Consider these for we have condemned them, C. Day Lewis, The Man with the hoe, Edwin Markham, From the river, Pare Lorentz, Get there if you can and see the land you once were proud to own, W. H. Auden, Song of the answerer, Efficiency expert, Florence Converse, I am the people the mob, Speech to those who say comrade, Moving through the silent crowd, From Areopagitica, John Milton, From The Hind and the panther, John Dryden, It is not to be thought, William Wordsworth, A Foreign ruler, Walter Savage Landor, You ask me why though ill at ease, Independence, America, Samuel Francis Smith, Laus deo!, Ballad of the common man, Alfred Kreymborg, The Peacemaker, Joyce Kilmer, Let America be America again, Langston Hughes, The Slave, James Oppenheim, My heart rebels against my generation, George Santayana, urj, urs, srfa |
