Studies in American LiteratureMacmillan, 1912 - 387 pages |
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Page vii
... fact that the majority of our Freshmen enter college with no knowledge of these matters . Such writers as Irving , Poe , and Lanier afford excellent opportunities for this sort of study and indeed invite , if they do not demand it . The ...
... fact that the majority of our Freshmen enter college with no knowledge of these matters . Such writers as Irving , Poe , and Lanier afford excellent opportunities for this sort of study and indeed invite , if they do not demand it . The ...
Page viii
... fact that the great writer is always one of a large group , one who by some special qualities has attracted and held the attention of the public ; but who is of importance to the historical student pre- cisely because he is one of a ...
... fact that the great writer is always one of a large group , one who by some special qualities has attracted and held the attention of the public ; but who is of importance to the historical student pre- cisely because he is one of a ...
Page x
... FACTS AND FORCES CHAPTER IX VERSE . THE NEW ENGLAND POETS . Ralph Waldo Emerson Oliver Wendell Holmes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow James Russell Lowell . John Greenleaf Whittier Thomas Bailey Aldrich Other Poets of New England 177 • 189 ...
... FACTS AND FORCES CHAPTER IX VERSE . THE NEW ENGLAND POETS . Ralph Waldo Emerson Oliver Wendell Holmes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow James Russell Lowell . John Greenleaf Whittier Thomas Bailey Aldrich Other Poets of New England 177 • 189 ...
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... fact , American Literature has not yet produced a great Epic worthy to be put in the same class with the works of Homer , Virgil , Dante , and Milton . It has produced , however , some very beautiful narrative poems , such as those ...
... fact , American Literature has not yet produced a great Epic worthy to be put in the same class with the works of Homer , Virgil , Dante , and Milton . It has produced , however , some very beautiful narrative poems , such as those ...
Page 23
... fact that it is not original , but derived from the British . The only way to classify Prose Literature is ac- cording to the subjects about which the author writes and the general method employed , which will usually be determined by ...
... fact that it is not original , but derived from the British . The only way to classify Prose Literature is ac- cording to the subjects about which the author writes and the general method employed , which will usually be determined by ...
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