The Democratic Spirit: A Collection of American Writings from the Earliest Times to the Present DayBernard Smith A. A. Knopf, 1941 - 927 pages |
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Page 420
... followed years of independ- ent editorial work , free - lance writing , and carpentering . In 1855 he pub- lished the first edition of his Leaves of Grass . A few of the best minds in America , led by Emerson , immediately recognized ...
... followed years of independ- ent editorial work , free - lance writing , and carpentering . In 1855 he pub- lished the first edition of his Leaves of Grass . A few of the best minds in America , led by Emerson , immediately recognized ...
Page 677
... followed . Not until 1910 did he leave journalism for good - resigning , that year , from the editorship of the But- terick publications . Ten years before , he had published a novel , Sister Carrie . It was a milestone in American ...
... followed . Not until 1910 did he leave journalism for good - resigning , that year , from the editorship of the But- terick publications . Ten years before , he had published a novel , Sister Carrie . It was a milestone in American ...
Page 762
... followed by another suc- cess , God's Little Acre ( 1933 ) These works are now generally accepted as the truest pictures we have ever had of the tragic degeneracy of Southern backwoods people - a race ground down by poverty , disease ...
... followed by another suc- cess , God's Little Acre ( 1933 ) These works are now generally accepted as the truest pictures we have ever had of the tragic degeneracy of Southern backwoods people - a race ground down by poverty , disease ...
Contents
ROGER WILLIAMS 1603?1683 | 5 |
BACONS MAN 1676 | 13 |
JOHN WISE 16521725 | 20 |
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