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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 4 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
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.) 4 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 2 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 2 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 2 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in 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.). You can also browse the collection for Middle Ages or search for Middle Ages in all documents.

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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.), Book III (continued) (search)
longs essentially to the hard-headed group of American writers who, like Andrews Norton, stopped short of transcendentalism. Ticknor's German training had taught him what much of the British scholarship of his time sorely needed to learn—the need of the broadest possible basis in facts; from that point onward, however, his scholarship remained essentially British in its distrust of ideas. The History of Spanish literature is much more like Warton's History of English poetry and Hallam's Middle Ages than it is like anything German. More serious temperamental defects are still to be mentioned. The plain fact is that Ticknor did not possess certain of the indispensable organs of literary scholarship. He lacked ordonnance; he was blind to the French literature of the Middle Ages and of the Renaissance; and he wanted ear—especially for verse. His lack of the sense for sequence, arrangement, and emphatic or conspicuous position appears even in the unworkmanlike construction of many of
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.), Index (search)
1 Men and women, 276 Mendenhall, Walter C., 150 Menger, 442 Mercier, Alfred, 593, 594, 595, 597, 598 Mercury (New York), 4 Meredith, George, 90, 570 Merrington, Marguerite, 280 Mesmer, 526 Messiah, the, 538 Metamora, 268 Metastasio, 450 Method of classical study, 480 Method of Philological study of the English language, 480 Meyer, 585 Meyers, J. C., 162 Mezes, 246 n. Michigan (University), 177, 412 Michel Peroux, 594 Michelson, A. A., 585 Middle Ages, 458 Middle five, the, 147 Middle Kingdom, the, 145 Middleton, George, 298 Middle years, the, 96, 102, 108 Mighty dollar, the, 271 Mikado's Empire, the, 155 Mila ou la Mort de la Salle, 592 Miles, George H., 268 Miles, Nelson A., 29 Mil huit cent quatorze et Mil huit cent quinze, 596 Milk White Flag, a, 279 Mill, John Stuart, 229, 230, 233, 234, 245, 250, 251, 434, 441 Miller, Cincinnatus Hiner, 31, 53-56, 59, 275, 290, 581 Miller, Daniel, 585 Miller, Henry