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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 4 0 Browse Search
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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 8: Poe and Whitman (search)
ries. In The fall of the House of Usher the theme is Fear; the opening sentence strikes the key and the closing sentence contains the climax. In the whole composition every sentence is modulated to the one end in view. The autumn landscape tones with the melancholy house; the somber chamber frames the cadaverous face of Roderick Usher; the face is an index of the tumultuous agitation of a mind wrestling with the grim phantom Fear and awaiting the cumulative horror of the final moment. In Ligeia, which Poe sometimes thought the best of all his tales, the theme is the ceaseless life of the will, the potency of the spirit of the beloved and departed woman. The unity of effect is absolute, the workmanship consummate. So with the theme of revenge in The Cask of Amontillado, the theme of mysterious intrigue in The Assignation. In Poe's detective stories, or tales of ratiocination as he preferred to call them, he takes to pieces for our amusement a puzzle which he has cunningly put tog
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Index. (search)
), 62 Knickerbocker group of writers, 89; works by, 270 Languishing commonwealth, Walley 41 Lanier, Sidney, 255-56 La Salle, Parkman 185 Last Leaf, the, Holmes 166 Last of the Mohicans, the, Cooper 89, 98, 99 Leatherstocking tales, Cooper 97-99 Leaves of Grass, Whitman 197, 200, 202-203 Letters, Motley 181 Letters from an American farmer, Crevecoeur, 60, 68 Liberator, the, 137, 217, 218 Library of American biography, 176 Life on the Mississippi, Clemens 237 Ligeia, Poe 193 Lincoln, Abraham, recognizes uncertainty in the nation, 2; would have approved Winthrop, 29; address at Cooper Union (1860), 104-105; quoted, 155; as a writer of liberty, 208; character and writings, 226-233; typically American, 265 Lionel Lincoln, Cooper 98 Literati, Pope 107 Little women, Alcott 140 London, Jack, 243-44 London in 1724, 54-56 Longfellow, H. W., in 1826, 89; attitude toward Transcendentalism, 143; life and writings, 152-57; died (1882), 255; dis