Category: Sherwood Anderson
Evening Song
by Sherwood Anderson
My song will rest while I rest. I struggle along. I'll get back to the corn and the open fields. Don't fret, love, I'll come out all right. Back of Chicago the open fields. Were you ever… Read the rest
An Apology for Crudity
by Sherwood Anderson
For a long time I have believed that crudity is an inevitable quality in the production of a really significant present-day American literature. How indeed is one to escape the obvious fact that there is as yet … Read the rest
An Awakening
by Sherwood Anderson
Belle Carpenter had a dark skin, grey eyes and thick lips. She was tall and strong. When black thoughts visited her she grew angry and wished she were a man and could fight someone with her fists. … Read the rest
Brothers
by Sherwood Anderson
I am at my house in the country and it is late October. It rains. Back of my house is a forest and in front there is a road and beyond that open fields. The country is … Read the rest
Hands
by Sherwood Anderson
HANDS, Concerning Wing Biddlebaum
UPON THE HALF decayed veranda of a small frame house that stood near the edge of a ravine near the town of Winesburg, Ohio, a fat little old man walked nervously up and … Read the rest
I’m A Fool
by Sherwood Anderson
It was a hard jolt for me, one of the most bitterest I ever had to face. And it all came about through my own foolishness too. Even yet sometimes, when I think of it, I want … Read the rest
I Want to Know Why
by Sherwood Anderson
We got up at four in the morning, that first day in the east. On the evening before we had climbed off a freight train at the edge of town, and with the true instinct of Kentucky … Read the rest
Motherhood
by Sherwood Anderson
Below the hill there was a swamp in which cattails grew. The wind rustled the dry leaves of a walnut tree that grew on top of the hill.
She went beyond the tree to where the grass … Read the rest
Seeds
by Sherwood Anderson
He was a small man with a beard and was very nervous. I remember how the cords of his neck were drawn taut.
For years he had been trying to cure people of illness by the method … Read the rest