The Cambridge History of American Literature: Later national literature: pt. IIWilliam Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921 |
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... Field . Mr. Dooley . O. Henry . CHAPTER X LATER POETS By NORMAN FOERSTER , A.M. , Professor of English in the University of North Carolina . Poets of East and West . New England . Emily Dickinson . Thomas Bailey Aldrich . Minor Figures ...
... Field . Mr. Dooley . O. Henry . CHAPTER X LATER POETS By NORMAN FOERSTER , A.M. , Professor of English in the University of North Carolina . Poets of East and West . New England . Emily Dickinson . Thomas Bailey Aldrich . Minor Figures ...
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... field . " Time has not reduced the rich variety of its famous topics , though time has somewhat altered the nature of cu- riosity with regard to the conduct of the pilgrims ; but even though their type of tourist were now quite extinct ...
... field . " Time has not reduced the rich variety of its famous topics , though time has somewhat altered the nature of cu- riosity with regard to the conduct of the pilgrims ; but even though their type of tourist were now quite extinct ...
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... Field set the measure of the humorist's output at one column a day " leaded agate , first line brevier . " He aspired also to produce work of permanent literary quality . His standards in both respects are kept up at the present time by ...
... Field set the measure of the humorist's output at one column a day " leaded agate , first line brevier . " He aspired also to produce work of permanent literary quality . His standards in both respects are kept up at the present time by ...
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... humorous significance . But Leland was not merely a hu- morist , and to deplore the loss of what he left undone is at once IC . G. Leland , Memoirs , vol . 1. , pp . 51-52 . to be ungrateful for his many services in other fields.
... humorous significance . But Leland was not merely a hu- morist , and to deplore the loss of what he left undone is at once IC . G. Leland , Memoirs , vol . 1. , pp . 51-52 . to be ungrateful for his many services in other fields.
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... fields and to express the highest appreciation of what he contributed to in- ternational comedy . Of the deluge of humorists who followed , Charles Heber Clark ( " Max Adeler " ) , like Leland , became better known in England than in ...
... fields and to express the highest appreciation of what he contributed to in- ternational comedy . Of the deluge of humorists who followed , Charles Heber Clark ( " Max Adeler " ) , like Leland , became better known in England than in ...
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