Statistics for occurrence #1 of “New England” in chapter 6, page 109 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature:
...was first apparent, not unnaturally, in serious New England.
The intellectual movement which followed, Professor Wendell suggestively calls the New England Renaissance.
In a few years, he says, New England developed a considerable political literature, of which the height was reached in formal oratory; it developed
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