History of American LiteratureAmerican Book Company, 1911 - 431 psl. This volume describes the greatest achievements in American literature, from the earliest times to the present. Special attention has been paid to the individual works of great authors, but also to literary movements, ideals, and animating principles, and the relation of all these to English literature. The author hopes this book will inspire students to investigate for themselves the remarkable American record of spirituality, initiative, and democratic accomplishment contained in our national literature. |
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... qualities — initiative , ingenuity , and democracy . Let us not forget that the Cambridge University graduate , the cooper , cloth - maker , printer , and blacksmith had the initia- tive to set out for the New World , the ingenuity to ...
... qualities — initiative , ingenuity , and democracy . Let us not forget that the Cambridge University graduate , the cooper , cloth - maker , printer , and blacksmith had the initia- tive to set out for the New World , the ingenuity to ...
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... qualities of this terrible story are its simplicity , its repression , its lack of striving after effect . Winthrop , Bradford , and Bunyan had learned from the 1611 version of the Bible to be content to present any situation as simply ...
... qualities of this terrible story are its simplicity , its repression , its lack of striving after effect . Winthrop , Bradford , and Bunyan had learned from the 1611 version of the Bible to be content to present any situation as simply ...
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... qualities . Even the taste of the next generation showed a change , for Cotton Mather's son , Samuel , noted as a blemish his father's " straining for far- fetched and dear - bought hints . " Cotton Mather's COTTON MATHER 49.
... qualities . Even the taste of the next generation showed a change , for Cotton Mather's son , Samuel , noted as a blemish his father's " straining for far- fetched and dear - bought hints . " Cotton Mather's COTTON MATHER 49.
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... qualities of Franklin's style ? Compare it with Woolman's style . Why are Brown's romances called " Gothic " ? What was the general type of American fiction preceding him ? Specify three strong or unusual incidents in the selections ...
... qualities of Franklin's style ? Compare it with Woolman's style . Why are Brown's romances called " Gothic " ? What was the general type of American fiction preceding him ? Specify three strong or unusual incidents in the selections ...
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... qualities are humor and restrained sentiment . The work by which he will be long- est known is his creation of the " Knickerbocker Legend " in the History of New York and his two most famous short stories , Rip Van Winkle and The Legend ...
... qualities are humor and restrained sentiment . The work by which he will be long- est known is his creation of the " Knickerbocker Legend " in the History of New York and his two most famous short stories , Rip Van Winkle and The Legend ...
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American literature artistic beauty born Boston Bret Harte Bryant Cairns called century character Charles Charles Brockden Brown colonial Concord Cooper Cotton Mather critic death early Edgar Allan Poe editor Emerson England English essays Eugene Field famous father feeling fiction forest Franklin greatest Hawthorne Hawthorne's Henry History Holmes Howells human humor ideals Indian influence Irving Irving's James John Jonathan Edwards lines literary live Longfellow Lowell Lowell's Mark Twain Mass modern moral Nathaniel Hawthorne nature never Novelist novels orators philosophy poem poet poetic poetry prose published Puritan readers realistic romance says Scarlet Letter Selections short stories shows singing slave slavery Sleepy Hollow song soul South spirit style Thoreau thought tion to-day transcendentalists truth Uncle Remus Uncle Tom's Cabin verse Virginia vols volume Walt Whitman Washington Irving Whitman Whittier William writers wrote York
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