HISTORY OF A LITERARY RADICAL
AND OTHER ESSAYS
RANDOLPH BOURNE
Drawn by Arthur G. Dove from the Death Mask by James EarleFraser
BY RANDOLPH BOURNE
HISTORY OF ALITERARY RADICAL
AND OTHER ESSAYS
EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION
By VAN WYCK BROOKS
“To write in favor of that
which the great interests of the
world are against is what I
conceive to be the duty and the
privilege of the intellectual.”
Padraic Colum
NEW YORK B. W. HUEBSCH MCMXX
INC.
COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY B. W. HUEBSCH, Inc.
PRINTED IN U. S. A.
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NOTE
Most of the papers included in this volume have already appeared in oneor another of the following magazines: The Atlantic Monthly,The Dial, The New Republic, The Seven Arts, TheYale Review, The Columbia University Quarterly, and arereprinted here with the kind permission of the editors.
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R. B.
Bitter-sweet, and a northwest wind
To sing his requiem,
Who was
Our Age,
And who becomes
An imperishable symbol of our ongoing,
For in himself
He rose above his body and came among us
Prophetic of the race,
The great hater
Of the dark human deformity
Which is our dying world,
The great lover
Of the spirit of youth
Which is our future’s seed....
James Oppenheim.
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