The Spirit of American LiteratureJohnson Reprint Corporation, 1969 - 347 sider |
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... genius , Thoreau , Whitman , and Mark Twain . Any child can read American literature , and if it does not make a man of him , it at least will not lead him into forbidden realms . Indeed , American books too seldom come to grips with ...
... genius , Thoreau , Whitman , and Mark Twain . Any child can read American literature , and if it does not make a man of him , it at least will not lead him into forbidden realms . Indeed , American books too seldom come to grips with ...
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... genius : Red glowed the western waters The setting sun was there , Scattering alike on wave and cloud His fiery mesh of hair . Amidst a group of blindness A solitary eye Gazed from the burdened slaver's deck Into that burning sky . To ...
... genius : Red glowed the western waters The setting sun was there , Scattering alike on wave and cloud His fiery mesh of hair . Amidst a group of blindness A solitary eye Gazed from the burdened slaver's deck Into that burning sky . To ...
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... genius . The apparent superiority of the eighteenth century in the essay is in part due to the lack of wealth in the other forms of writing , just as a kind of clear , shapely , intellectual verse seems to be peculiar to the eigh ...
... genius . The apparent superiority of the eighteenth century in the essay is in part due to the lack of wealth in the other forms of writing , just as a kind of clear , shapely , intellectual verse seems to be peculiar to the eigh ...
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Preface Chapter I General Characteristics | 3 |
Irving | 18 |
Cooper | 35 |
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admirable American literature Annie Kilburn artistic Autocrat beautiful Biglow born Boston Bret Harte Carlyle century chapter character Cooper critic dead death delight Doctor Johnson Emerson England English essay essayists expression eyes F. B. Sanborn fact fancy feel fiction genius Griswold Harvard Hawthorne Hawthorne's heart Henry James Holmes Howells Howells's human humour idea ideal imagination Innocents Abroad intellectual interesting Irving Irving's James Jane Austen labour Lanier Leaves of Grass lecture letters literary lived Longfellow Lowell Lowell's Mark Twain matter mind modern mood Natty Bumppo nature never novelist novels passion persons philosophy phrase Poe's poem poetic poetry poets portrait Professor prose Pudd'nhead Wilson reader realism romance says Scarlet Letter sense Shelley social song soul spirit story style talk thee things Thoreau thou thought Tolstoy true truth universe verse voice Whitman Whittier words write written wrote Yankee