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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... letters are steeped in a naturalistic melancholy and tinged with a philosophical bitterness of which American literature before Mark Twain showed hardly a trace . That strain seems likely to be influential too , and , unfortunately ...
... letters are steeped in a naturalistic melancholy and tinged with a philosophical bitterness of which American literature before Mark Twain showed hardly a trace . That strain seems likely to be influential too , and , unfortunately ...
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... letter to Higginson beginning , " Are you too deeply occupied to say if my verse is alive ? The mind is so near itself it cannot see distinctly , and I have none to ask . " Discerning the divine spark in her shapeless verse , he ...
... letter to Higginson beginning , " Are you too deeply occupied to say if my verse is alive ? The mind is so near itself it cannot see distinctly , and I have none to ask . " Discerning the divine spark in her shapeless verse , he ...
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... letters , in her poems . It makes her poetry eminently spontane- ous as fresh and artless as experience itself - in spite of the fact that she was not a spontaneous singer . The ringing bursts of melody that are characteristic of the ...
... letters , in her poems . It makes her poetry eminently spontane- ous as fresh and artless as experience itself - in spite of the fact that she was not a spontaneous singer . The ringing bursts of melody that are characteristic of the ...
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... letters , he expressed him- self in the idiom of the tradition of beauty in literature , both classical and modern . His protracted studies in Theocritus and the other early idyllists were typical of his scholarly love of literature ...
... letters , he expressed him- self in the idiom of the tradition of beauty in literature , both classical and modern . His protracted studies in Theocritus and the other early idyllists were typical of his scholarly love of literature ...
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... letter , " is perhaps true . " He was right ; both his health and his work , in various fields , were impaired . In another letter he refers to his " in- sufficient but irrepressible verse , " which describes it well enough . He began ...
... letter , " is perhaps true . " He was right ; both his health and his work , in various fields , were impaired . In another letter he refers to his " in- sufficient but irrepressible verse , " which describes it well enough . He began ...
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