Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Americans” in chapter 5, page 108 of Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters:
...as her literary productiveness in this era that it still remains her greatest period, and so completely did New England writers of this epoch voice the ideals of the nation that the great majority of Americans , even today, regard these New Englanders as the truest literary exponents of the mind and soul of the United States.
We must take a look at them.
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