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James Russell Lowell, Among my books 5 5 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 4 4 Browse Search
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War. 2 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 2 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 2 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 2 2 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 10, 1865., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 1 1 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 14: Poe (search)
lado and William Wilson, or in certain studies of the pure imagination, as The fall of the House of Usher and The Masque of the red death. In all of these he displays a skill of construction and of condensation surpassed by few if any other workers in his field. In some—as in The Masque of the red death, or in Eleonora, or in his landscape studies—he shows himself a master of English style; and in two of his briefer studies— Shadow and Silence—he approaches the eloquence and splendour of De Quincey. His main limitations as a writer of the short story are to be found in the feebleness and flimsiness of his poorer work; in his all but complete lack of healthy humour; in his incapacity to create or to depict character; in his morbidness of mood and grotesqueness of situation. His friend, P. P. Cooke, wrote of him in 1847: For my individual part, having the seventy or more tales, analytic, mystic, grotesque, arabesque, always wonderful, often great, which his industry and fertilit
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
, the, 373 Death in the School Room, 262 n. Death of Lyon, the, 281 Death of Stonewall Jackson, 307 Death of Wind-Foot, The, 262 n. De Bow's review, 313 Decanter of Madeira, 242 Deephaven, 382 Defence of liberal Christianity, 210 Defoe, 12, 68, 148, 374 Deland, Margaret Wade, 390 Delta (New Orleans), 295, 296 Democracy and other addresses, 247 Democratic review, the, 166, 168 Democratic Vistas, 270 Demosthenes, 96 Dennie, Joseph, 162, 162 n., 179 De Quincey, 68 Derby, George Horatio, 156, 158, 159 Descent into the Maelstrom, the, 68 De Selincourt, Basil, 263 n. Desiree's Baby, 390 Devil in manuscript, the, 19 Devil's delight, the, 305 Devon, W. A., 286 Diadem, the, 174 Dial, the, 20, 165, 166 Dialect notes, 365 Dialogue between a Semi-Calvinist and a Calvinist, 199 Diamond Lens, the, 373 Diaz, Bernal, 128 Dickens, 63, 100, 148, 152, 153, 232, 371, 378, 380, 384 Dictionary (Johnson), 124 Diogenes (Greek