Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Charles Brockden Brown” in chapter 7 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature:
... simplicity was the precise contribution needed in that early and formative period of American letters.
Literature in a new country naturally tends to the florid, as had been shown by the novels of Charles Brockden Brown , or even by so severe a work as Bancroft's .
In poetry, Poe was to give only too wide a prestige to the same tendency.
In subsequent years Longfellow published many volumes of verse, in which his...
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