Notable Commonwealth Writers and Their Notable Works

• Filipino Poetry (1924) by Rodolfo Dato;

• English-German Anthology of Filipino Poets (1934) by Pablo Laslo;

• Jose Garcia Villa's Many Voices (1939) and Poems of Doveglion (1941);

• Poems (1940) by Angela Manalang-Gloria;

• Chorus for America: Six Philippine Poets (1942) by Carlos Bulosan;

• Zoilo Galang's A Child of Sorrow (1921), the first Filipino novel in English, and Box of Ashes and Other Stories (1925), the first collection of stories in book form;

• Villa’s Footnote to Youth: Tales of the Philippines and Others (1933);

• "The Wound and the Scar" (1937) by Arturo Rotor, a collection of stories;

• "Winds of April" (1940) by N. V. M. Gonzalez

• "His Native Soil" (1941) by Juan C. Laya;

• Manuel Arguilla's "How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife and Other Stories" (1941);

• Galang's "Life and Success" (1921), the first volume of essays in English; and

• the influential "Literature and Society" (1940) by Salvador P. López.