The Spirit of American LiteratureBoni & Liveright, 1913 - 347 sider |
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... genius that one would nominate for a place in it , except Mrs. Wharton and Mrs. Freeman , who cannot be admitted because they are women . The list ( except for two or three distinguished men who are dead ) represents American literature ...
... genius that one would nominate for a place in it , except Mrs. Wharton and Mrs. Freeman , who cannot be admitted because they are women . The list ( except for two or three distinguished men who are dead ) represents American literature ...
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... genius to the task of describing the sections of the country , the varied scenes and habits from New Orleans to the Port- lands . And yet , small band as they are , with great domestic opportunities and responsibilities , they have ...
... genius to the task of describing the sections of the country , the varied scenes and habits from New Orleans to the Port- lands . And yet , small band as they are , with great domestic opportunities and responsibilities , they have ...
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... genius . The list of Poe's victims is not more re- markable for the number of nonentities it includes than " The Lives of the Poets " by the great Doctor Johnson , who was hack for a bookseller , and " introduced " all the poets that ...
... genius . The list of Poe's victims is not more re- markable for the number of nonentities it includes than " The Lives of the Poets " by the great Doctor Johnson , who was hack for a bookseller , and " introduced " all the poets that ...
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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 the ...
... 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 the ...
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... genius ; they dealt with trivial , slight aspects of life ; they did not take the novel seriously in the right sense of the word , though no doubt they were in another sense serious enough about their poor productions . " Uncle Tom's ...
... genius ; they dealt with trivial , slight aspects of life ; they did not take the novel seriously in the right sense of the word , though no doubt they were in another sense serious enough about their poor productions . " Uncle Tom's ...
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Side 230 - Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death.
Side 178 - The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.
Side 221 - RECONCILIATION WORD over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost...
Side 79 - No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
Side 238 - O happy life! O songs of joy! In the air, in the woods, over fields, Loved! loved! loved! loved! loved! But my mate no more, no more with me! We two together no more.
Side 191 - It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century ; — But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men...
Side 259 - IN THIS book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri Negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary "Pike County" dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech.
Side 111 - I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew.
Side 146 - A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents — he then combines such events that may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect.
Side 104 - MILTON I pace the sounding sea-beach and behold How the voluminous billows roll and run, Upheaving and subsiding, while the sun Shines through their sheeted emerald far unrolled, And the ninth wave, slow gathering fold by fold All its loose-flowing garments into one, Plunges upon the shore, and floods the dun Pale reach of sands, and changes them to gold.