Sinclair Lewis Remembered

Notes

Notes Introduction 1. ­ Sinclair Lewis, The Man from Main Street: Selected Essays and Other Writings, 1904–1950, ed. Harry E. Maule and Melville H. Cane (New York: Random House, 1953), 272. 2. George Killough, “German Catholicism, Sauk Centre, and ­ Sinclair Lewis,” Ameri­ can Literary Realism 39 (Winter 2007): 109–25. 3. Lewis, Man from Main Street, 51. 4. Ibid., 54. 5. E. M. Forster, Abinger Harvest (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1936), 127. 6. At www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.hml. 7. Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa (New York: Scribner’s, 1935), 8. 8. Mark Schorer, ­ Sinclair Lewis: An Ameri­ can Life (New York: McGraw-­ Hill, 1961), 553. 9. Schorer, ­ Sinclair Lewis, 799. 10. Granville Hicks, “­ Sinclair Lewis’ Stinkbomb,” New Masses, January 25, 1938, 19. 11. Alfred Kazin, On Native Grounds (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1942), 205–26. 12. Lewis, Man from Main Street, 15. 13. Ibid. 14. Schorer, ­ Sinclair Lewis, 501. 15. Ibid., 245. 16. Richard Lingeman, ­ Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street (New York: Random House, 2002), 101. 17. Lewis, Man from Main Street, 45–46. 18. Lingeman, ­ Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street, 291–92. 19. Stephen S. Conroy, “­ Sinclair Lewis’s Sociological Imagination,” Ameri­ can Literature 42 (No­ vem­ ber 1970): 348. 20. Lingeman, ­ Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street, 553, 481. 21. Lewis, Man from Main Street, 38. 22. Schorer, ­ Sinclair Lewis, 270. 23. Ibid., 181. 24. Ibid., 410. 25. Valerie Eliot, ed., The Letters of T. S. Eliot (San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich , 1988), 618. 358 / Notes to Pages 5–25 26. Constance Rourke, Ameri­ can Humor (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1931), 286. 27. Schorer, ­ Sinclair Lewis, 286. 28. Lewis, Man from Main Street, 153–64. 29. Ibid., 48. 30. Lewis, Man from Main Street, 13. 31. Dorothy Thompson, “The Boy and Man from Sauk Centre,” Atlantic Monthly 206 (No­ vem­ ber 1960): 42. 32. Lingeman, ­ Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street, 191. 33. Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and Into the Trees (New York: Scribner’s, 1950), 113, 119, 87. 34. Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1940), 546. 35. Quoted in Lingeman, ­ Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street, 50. 36. Ibid., 95. 37. Ibid., 259. 38. Ibid., 552. 39. Ibid. 40. Ibid., 311. 41. Schorer, ­ Sinclair Lewis, 579, 587, 588, 595. 42. Ibid., 813. 43. Schorer, “My Life and Nine-­ Year Captivity with ­ Sinclair Lewis,” New York Times Book Review, August 20, 1961, 7. 44. Irving Howe, “The World He Mimicked Was His Own,” New York Times Book Review, Oc­ to­ ber 1, 1961, 34. Part 1 1. Lewis, Man from Main Street, 49. 2. Launched in 1926, this French passenger ship was one of the most elegant vessels of the period. Part 2 1. See headnote to chapter 7. 2. Lewis compared the Ameri­ can poet Arthur Upson (1877–1908) to John Keats and Thomas Chatterton, two famously gifted poets who also died young. 3. George Santayana (1863–1952) studied with William James (1842–1910) and Josiah Royce (1855–1916) at Harvard and taught with them in the Harvard Department of Philosophy. 4. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), controversial and innovative English poet and critic, is known for technically masterful work that is, by contemporary standards, florid. 5. In his satirical poems, Bacon often targeted his friends—including Lewis, who Notes to Pages 25–33 / 359 seems to be the butt of “To One Who Ran Down Pope” (Leonard Bacon, Lost Buffalo and Other Poems [New York: Harper, 1930], 100). 6. Harold Beers Randall (1889–1971) completed an engineering degree at Yale in 1911. 7. “The Ballade of the Golden Horn,” Yale Literary Magazine 649 (January 1908): 174. 8. William Pepperell Montague (1873–1953) joined the faculty of Barnard College in 1903 and the graduate faculty at Columbia University in 1907. 9. William Noyes (1862–1928) of Columbia Teachers’ College and his wife, Anna G. Noyes (b. 1873), manager of the colony. 10. Edwin Björkman (1866–1951) translated four volumes of plays by the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg (1849–1912) between 1912 and 1916. 11. The “minor novelists” included Grace MacGowan Cooke (1863–1944), author of Their First Formal Call (1906) and The Power and the Glory (1909). 12. Dr. Charles H. Castle (b. 1860) was an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist in Cincinnati, Ohio. 13. Among the other residents were the sculptor Jo Davidson (1883–1952) and the...