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| Author | : Lewis Leary |
| Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 2017-01-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9781334900211 |
Excerpt from American Literary Essays Absent Things in American Life 37 William Dean Howells (1837 - 1920) Art and Democracy 38 H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) American Culture 39 42 45. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
| Author | : John R. Howard |
| Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 2017-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9780260094230 |
Excerpt from Best American Essays Poe, in his essay on The Philosophy of Com position (pp. 87 says, with special reference to poems: If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely important effect derivable from unity of impression; for if two sittings be required. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
| Author | : Brander Matthews |
| Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
| Total Pages | : 526 |
| Release | : 2018-07-28 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780484483711 |
Excerpt from The Oxford Book of American Essays The customary antithesis between American litera ture and English literature is unfortunate and mislead ing in that it seems to exclude American authors from the noble roll of those who have contributed to the literature of our mother-tongue. Of course, when we consider it carefully we cannot fail to see that the literature of a lan guage is one and indivisible and that the nativity or the domicile of those who make it matters nothing. Just as Alexandrian literature is Greek, SO American literature is English; and as Theocritus demands inclusion in any ac count Oi Greek literature, SO Thoreau cannot be omitted from any history of English literature as a whole. The works of Anthony Hamilton and Rousseau, Mme. De' Stael and M. Maeterlinck are not more indisputably a part of the literature Of the French language than the works of Franklin and Emerson, of Hawthorne and Poe are part of the literature of the English language. Theocritus may never have set foot on the soil of Greece, and Thoreau never adventured himself on the Atlantic to Visit the island home of his ancestors; yet the former expressed himself in Greek and the latter in English, - and how can either be neglected in any comprehensive survey of the literature of his own tongue? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
| Author | : Carl Van Doren |
| Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2017-12-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9780484187114 |
Excerpt from Many Minds: Critical Essays on American Writers The work Of Mary Austin had been to discover that common ground and to prophesy its uses. Born in the Middle West, now apparently the center Of the nation's greatest energy, she lived her maturing years in a kind Of desert isolation in California. There she had her vision, there she found what she felt to be her place in the cosmic scheme. For all the toll the desert takes Of a man, she wrote in her first book, it gives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
| Author | : Washington Irving |
| Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2016-06-30 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781333007065 |
Excerpt from American Essays Another of our typical essayists is George Wil liam Curtis. Toward the end of his life Curtis wrote every month, for Harper's Magazine, a paper called The Editor's Easy Chair. These were true essays, not unlike in character Thackeray's Roundabout Papers. Each month he thought of some subject around which he might weave his ideas and fancies, and the result was a collection full of character and thought. But these were not Curtis's first experiments in this direction. In Prue and I we have a series of papers which, though put in the form of reveries (shall we call them?) of an old bookkeeper, are quite as much essays as if Curtis had written them in his own person. Some of them are more of an exercise of fancy, it is true, but there is thought in them too, perhaps as much as he afterwards put into his lay sermons from The Editor's Easy Chair. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
| Author | : John Macy |
| Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
| Total Pages | : 564 |
| Release | : 2017-11-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9780260708502 |
Excerpt from American Writers on American Litterature Our book is not a history but a collection of essays. Yet it is comprehensive enough to serve as a history; all the important figures in American letters are treated in separate chapters or have their place in convenient groups. Nobody can decide to the satisfaction Of everybody else just Who is important and who is secondary. The decision affecting the general plan of the book has been made by the editor, but in specific cases the collaborators determined the inclusions and omissions, and one or two suggested their own topics. Strict history is in duty bound to consider many persons Whom literary criticism can cheerfully forget. In our view completeness is neither attainable nor desirable; space, in exorable and kindly, forbids, and exhaustive treatment is likely to exhaust the reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
| Author | : Irving Babbitt |
| Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2017-10-24 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780266686521 |
Excerpt from Literature and the American College: Essays in Defense of the Humanities Nearly half the matter in this volume has been printed elsewhere. The Rational Study of the Classics, Literature and the College, and On Being Original are reproduced with immaterial changes from the Atlantic Monthly. Two papers in the Nation are combined with a great deal of new material in the essay on Literature and the Doctor's Degree. Portions Of the essays on An cients and Modems and Academic Leisure are taken from two articles in the Harvard Graduates' Magazine. I wish to thank the publishers of these periodicals for permission to reprint. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
| Author | : William P. Trent |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2015-07-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9781330679715 |
Excerpt from A Brief History of American Literature In this book, which is designed for the use of schools, I - have endeavoured to furnish a condensed account of the development of American literature, rather than a series of connected essays on leading American authors. At the same time I have tried to mention no writer or book devoid of a fair amount of significance, and I have also had it in mind to treat the more important authors on a scale sufficiently extended to suit the needs of the average class. I have aimed to minimize tentative criticism and to give only such details of historical setting as could not well be spared. I have condensed the bibliographical information to dimensions more or less proportionate with the resources of school libraries and have divided it into sections according to chapters. The period from 1866 to the present day has been sketched in a chapter, fuller treatment of writers, many of whom are still living, not seeming advisable in view of the difficulty of maintaining an impartial attitude toward contemporaries. An appendix gives important dates, which may be used in lieu of those scattered through the text. Topics for essays and class reports will be often suggested by the paragraph headings, and teachers may sometimes find it advantageous, when time permits, to have reports made on writers and books mentioned in the Appendix but not in the text, as well as on topics treated more fully in my larger book, "A History of American Literature, 1607-1865" (1903, Appleton). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
| Author | : Chauncey C. Starkweather |
| Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
| Total Pages | : 422 |
| Release | : 2015-06-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9781330453599 |
Excerpt from Essays of American Essayists: Including Biographical and Critical Sketches A sweet and gentle soul, Emerson called Longfellow. To be loved by the young, ah, that is a great thing! Before the stress of the decades has wearied the heart and dimmed with tears the eyes expectant, to be then the chosen friend of youth, pure and holy in its Heavenly aspirations and its turnings toward the light! So is it with Longfellow, who sang in lute tones, bard of the gentle, the musing, the refined. He was not sublime, he was mhe was human. The youth of the future will hold him to their hearts, as it gladly does in these current days of storm and stress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
| Author | : William Greenough Thayer Shedd |
| Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2017-12-26 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780484801706 |
Excerpt from Literary Essays A yet worse feature, perhaps, because it stands in the way of reformation, is found in the dislike of stern recuperative theories generally, and the disposition to dilute truth and tone down the austere. The intellectuality of the nation has lost a great deal of its early fibre. In theology, men shrink from thorough statements and absolute punishments, as a weak nerve does from the north wind. In philosophy, even professed stu dents avoid all the deeper problems, and all the strict science. In poetry, those who read and relish Sopho.cles, Dante, and Milton, are greatly in the minority. And in art, the lofty abstract ideal has well-nigh vanished, so that in much that goes under this name, sense becomes still more sensuous, and flesh still more carnal. The true course is to look these facts in the eye, and to act accordingly. In 1802, a great poet, English to the bone, and loving his country as he loved his own flesh, denominated Eng land a fen of stagnant waters, and invoked the stern shade of Milton to raise her up, and give her manners, virtue, free dom, power. The American Republic needs to-day a similar fidelity, and a similar affection, from all her true sons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
