Statistics for occurrence #1 of “New England” in chapter 1.3, page 54 of Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2:
...e would be more dissentients from that judgment than there were then, his fame still rests upon a very solid basis of acceptance and esteem.
And especially to those who have sprung from the soil of New England , he will always be the incomparable poet of their childhood home, of its landscape, its legendry, and the spiritual essence of its history.
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