The Main Lines of American LiteratureRaymond Wright Short, Wilbur Stewart Scott Holt, 1954 - 648 pages |
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... American book ? " If Irving is not a major figure in American letters , we still would not wish to do without him . He developed the short story , especially by his emphasis upon the importance of harmonious and significant tone ; he ...
... American book ? " If Irving is not a major figure in American letters , we still would not wish to do without him . He developed the short story , especially by his emphasis upon the importance of harmonious and significant tone ; he ...
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... Americans , and from his own family , he picked up the same inveterate habit of seeing reality in a moral frame of reference that he imputes to many of his American characters ; from the Europeans he ac- cepted ardent lessons in ...
... Americans , and from his own family , he picked up the same inveterate habit of seeing reality in a moral frame of reference that he imputes to many of his American characters ; from the Europeans he ac- cepted ardent lessons in ...
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... American Ballads and Folk Songs by John A. and Alan Lomax ( 1934 ) ; Our Singing Country by the same authors ( 1941 ) ; and B. A. Botkin's A Treasury of American Folk- lore ( 1944 ) . Folklore in America by Martha A. Beckwith is ...
... American Ballads and Folk Songs by John A. and Alan Lomax ( 1934 ) ; Our Singing Country by the same authors ( 1941 ) ; and B. A. Botkin's A Treasury of American Folk- lore ( 1944 ) . Folklore in America by Martha A. Beckwith is ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 9 |
WILLIAM BRADFORD 20 | 20 |
NATHANIEL WARD 330 | 30 |
Copyright | |
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