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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... followed ; but literary " laws " which proved irrelevant to his business as entertainer of the masses he disregarded at pleasure as negligible or out of place in a democratic Esthetic . Howells calls him " the Lincoln of our literature ...
... followed ; but literary " laws " which proved irrelevant to his business as entertainer of the masses he disregarded at pleasure as negligible or out of place in a democratic Esthetic . Howells calls him " the Lincoln of our literature ...
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... followed , Charles Heber Clark ( " Max Adeler " ) , like Leland , became better known in England than in the United States . Out of the Hurly - Burly ( 1874 ) , his first and best book , links together facetious extrava- gances in prose ...
... followed , Charles Heber Clark ( " Max Adeler " ) , like Leland , became better known in England than in the United States . Out of the Hurly - Burly ( 1874 ) , his first and best book , links together facetious extrava- gances in prose ...
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... followed , none fulfilled the promise that readers not unnaturally found in the Songs . He wrote dramas , too , and novels , uniformly without success . Little as Joaquin Miller had in common with the Pre- Raphaelites , his view of ...
... followed , none fulfilled the promise that readers not unnaturally found in the Songs . He wrote dramas , too , and novels , uniformly without success . Little as Joaquin Miller had in common with the Pre- Raphaelites , his view of ...
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... followed his school - teaching years , first in Ohio and afterwards in California , where he eventually became professor of English in the State University . This post he held , with distinction as a teacher , for eight years ...
... followed his school - teaching years , first in Ohio and afterwards in California , where he eventually became professor of English in the State University . This post he held , with distinction as a teacher , for eight years ...
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... followed , till , in 1877 , he was invited to take a place on The Indianapolis Journal . In this newspaper he printed his dialect poems by " Benjamin F. Johnson of Boone , " which were welcomed so warmly that a pamphlet edition was sold ...
... followed , till , in 1877 , he was invited to take a place on The Indianapolis Journal . In this newspaper he printed his dialect poems by " Benjamin F. Johnson of Boone , " which were welcomed so warmly that a pamphlet edition was sold ...
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