id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 34313 nan Literature in the Making, by Some of Its Makers .txt text/plain 54322 3285 76 the future." A famous English short-story writer said, "The war has "But the American Civil War produced literature, did it not?" I asked. for myself--I must write of the people and things that I know best, but "But you do not believe," I said, "that American literature in general group of American writers like the New England group which included asked, "is the war likely to have on American literature?" "Do you think," I asked, "that writers should be specialists in writing? would leave a man time to write novels, and a novelist worth his salt "Thackeray would not write a _Book of Snobs_ to-day," he said. "Do you think, then," I asked, "that our writers are producing work as literature or of American life without thinking of the novels of William _Anthology of Magazine Verse and Year-Book of American Poetry_, calls "More people are writing poetry to-day than fifty years ago, and ./cache/34313.txt ./txt/34313.txt