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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... thing that went before , or the thing that may be about to follow . " Be- side this assertion of a spontaneity approaching artlessness let us put Professor Matthews's caution : " His colloquial ease should not hide from us his mastery ...
... thing that went before , or the thing that may be about to follow . " Be- side this assertion of a spontaneity approaching artlessness let us put Professor Matthews's caution : " His colloquial ease should not hide from us his mastery ...
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... things they knew before 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 ...
... things they knew before 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 ...
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... thing to it , " the free - born American " ; and , lastly , a certain strain of naturalistic pessimism . In the first class go the foreign - travel books , The Prince and the Pauper , and A Connecticut Yankee ; and the impulse properly ...
... thing to it , " the free - born American " ; and , lastly , a certain strain of naturalistic pessimism . In the first class go the foreign - travel books , The Prince and the Pauper , and A Connecticut Yankee ; and the impulse properly ...
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... things exotic , mysterious , and occult . During this time he wrote with extreme fluency more than fifty books on the most varied subjects , not to mention uncounted contributions to periodicals . He would doubtless have wished to be re ...
... things exotic , mysterious , and occult . During this time he wrote with extreme fluency more than fifty books on the most varied subjects , not to mention uncounted contributions to periodicals . He would doubtless have wished to be re ...
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... thing of the mystic's insight and joy . And she expressed her experience in her poems , forgetting the world altogether ... things that are timeless . Apparently deriving no inspiration from the war to which Massachusetts , including her ...
... thing of the mystic's insight and joy . And she expressed her experience in her poems , forgetting the world altogether ... things that are timeless . Apparently deriving no inspiration from the war to which Massachusetts , including her ...
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