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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) | 114 | 0 | Browse | Search |
James Russell Lowell, Among my books | 80 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 50 | 0 | Browse | Search |
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) | 46 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises | 38 | 0 | 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.) | 32 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature | 30 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays | 28 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches | 28 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) | 20 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 1 : the Puritan writers (search)
Chapter 1: the Puritan writers
The point of view.
When Shakespeare's Slender in The Merry wives of Windsor claims that his cousin Shallow is a gentleman born, and may write himself armigero, he adds proudly, All his successors, gone before him, have done it, and all his ancestors that come after him may.
Slender really bu ssed that magnificent Latin sentence of Bacon's which one marvels never to have seen quoted among the too scanty evidences that he wrote the works attributed to Shakespeare :--
It [literature] hath something divine in it, because it raises the mind and hurries it into sublimity, by conforming the show of things to the desires of ed in delight or were sunk in a sea of bliss on reading them.
Her literary taste was, like that of other Puritans, fatally compromised by religious prejudice.
Shakespeare and the other robust Elizabethan spirits were an abomination to her; and she readily fell * under the influence of fantastic poets like
Herbert, Quarles, and
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 6 : the Cambridge group (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 8 : the Southern influence---Whitman (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 10 : forecast (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Index. (search)