The Spirit of American LiteratureJohnson Reprint Corporation, 1969 - 347 sider |
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Side 90
... talk in the book is excellent , the best in Hawthorne's work . The characters are intelligent and full of ideas , and therefore their talk , while preserving the natural accents of human speech , can be kept at a high intellectual pitch ...
... talk in the book is excellent , the best in Hawthorne's work . The characters are intelligent and full of ideas , and therefore their talk , while preserving the natural accents of human speech , can be kept at a high intellectual pitch ...
Side 159
... talk , and there- by gains the privileges of talk without sacrificing the advan- tages of literary phrasing when that is needed to put the thought in order . It is free from the rigours of the formal essay and secures a natural right to ...
... talk , and there- by gains the privileges of talk without sacrificing the advan- tages of literary phrasing when that is needed to put the thought in order . It is free from the rigours of the formal essay and secures a natural right to ...
Side 164
... talk of a character , and then shave it off and modify it in the true first person ! Iris is rather shadowy , a feminine vision for a wise middle - aged man to enwrap in gracious ideas . The " boy John " is a bit of low - comedy realism ...
... talk of a character , and then shave it off and modify it in the true first person ! Iris is rather shadowy , a feminine vision for a wise middle - aged man to enwrap in gracious ideas . The " boy John " is a bit of low - comedy realism ...
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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