The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume 3William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren G. P. Putnam's sons, 1921 |
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... Traditions of American Philosophy . Large Indebtedness to Great Britain . Other Influences . Scotch Common - Sense Realism . The Evolutionary Philosophy . Its Influence on American Theology . John Fiske . His Substitution of the ...
... Traditions of American Philosophy . Large Indebtedness to Great Britain . Other Influences . Scotch Common - Sense Realism . The Evolutionary Philosophy . Its Influence on American Theology . John Fiske . His Substitution of the ...
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... tradition , " he avowedly sought to please the masses , and he was elected to his high place in American literature by a tre- mendous popular vote , which was justified even in the opinion of severe critics by his exhibition of a ...
... tradition , " he avowedly sought to please the masses , and he was elected to his high place in American literature by a tre- mendous popular vote , which was justified even in the opinion of severe critics by his exhibition of a ...
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... History was born - before Tradition had being - things that were , and forms that moved , in a vague era which even Poetry and Romance scarce know of - and passed one by one away and left the stony dreamer solitary in the midst of a.
... History was born - before Tradition had being - things that were , and forms that moved , in a vague era which even Poetry and Romance scarce know of - and passed one by one away and left the stony dreamer solitary in the midst of a.
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... tradition . But if we value a book in proportion to its saturation with its author's most distinctive qualities and ... traditional and the supernatural it impresses one as a counterpoise obviously unequal to the task of making a balance ...
... tradition . But if we value a book in proportion to its saturation with its author's most distinctive qualities and ... traditional and the supernatural it impresses one as a counterpoise obviously unequal to the task of making a balance ...
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... tradition , its repetition , with a difference , of familiar and justly approved types of beauty ; its defect was mechanical repetition , petty embellishment . The virtue of the poetry of " life " was fidelity to experience , vitality ...
... tradition , its repetition , with a difference , of familiar and justly approved types of beauty ; its defect was mechanical repetition , petty embellishment . The virtue of the poetry of " life " was fidelity to experience , vitality ...
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