Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 819
... American life , to show how it was directed and shaped by conditions in the New World ; but with the publication of Wieland the inexpli- cable appears , the creative spirit begins to reveal itself . Charles Brockden Brown did not master ...
... American life , to show how it was directed and shaped by conditions in the New World ; but with the publication of Wieland the inexpli- cable appears , the creative spirit begins to reveal itself . Charles Brockden Brown did not master ...
Page 821
... American authorship , was hidden in that fortunate obscurity in which his delicate and sensitive genius found perhaps the best conditions for its ripening . The " Twice- Told Tales " did not appear until 1837. Lowell was a schoolboy , a ...
... American authorship , was hidden in that fortunate obscurity in which his delicate and sensitive genius found perhaps the best conditions for its ripening . The " Twice- Told Tales " did not appear until 1837. Lowell was a schoolboy , a ...
Page 825
... representative after the manner of the great masters of poetry ; but its quality is perfect . The importance of half a dozen perfect poems is not to be discovered in their mass ; POE'S PLACE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE 825.
... representative after the manner of the great masters of poetry ; but its quality is perfect . The importance of half a dozen perfect poems is not to be discovered in their mass ; POE'S PLACE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE 825.
Page 827
... seem to such men hysterical and unreal . When the homes were built , how- ever , and men were housed in them , they would begin to crave completeness of life , and then the imagination would POE'S PLACE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE 827.
... seem to such men hysterical and unreal . When the homes were built , how- ever , and men were housed in them , they would begin to crave completeness of life , and then the imagination would POE'S PLACE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE 827.
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... American estimate of Poe will approach more nearly the foreign estimate . That estimate was based mainly on a recognition of Poe's artistic quality and of the marked individuality of his work . Lowell and Longfellow continued the old ...
... American estimate of Poe will approach more nearly the foreign estimate . That estimate was based mainly on a recognition of Poe's artistic quality and of the marked individuality of his work . Lowell and Longfellow continued the old ...
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