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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 12 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.) 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 4 0 Browse Search
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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 2 0 Browse Search
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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)
orian Age. I can't stand George Eliot and Hawthorne and those people, he said. And as for The Bostonians, I would rather be damned to John Bunyan's heaven than read that. Modern fiction generally impressed him as namby-pamby and artificial. Jane Austen was his pet abhorrence, but he also detested Scott, primarily for his Toryism, and he poked fun at Cooper for his inaccuracies. His taste for books was eminently masculine. The literary nourishment of his style he appears to have found chiefar since the days when Cooper and Hawthorne repined over the democratic barrenness of American manners!) No one has written more engaging commonplaces than Howells, though perhaps something like the century which has elapsed since the death of Jane Austen—Howells's ideal among English novelists—will have to pass before the historian can be sure that work artistically flawless may be kept alive, lacking malice or intensity, by ease and grace and charm, by kind wisdom and thoughtful mirth. Haw
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)
harva-Veda-Praticakhya, 468 Atharva-Veda-Sanhita;, 468 Athenian Mercury, 334 Atkinson, Edward, 363, 437, 440 Atlantic Monthly, 5, 36, 57, 66 n., 77, 78, 80, 103, 122, 141, 301, 304, 305-307, 312, 314, 316, 318, 482 n., 488, 496 At the funeral of a minor poet, 37 Aubert Dubayet, 598 Auctioneer, the, 281 Audrey, 287 Audubon, John James, 112, 134, 540 n., 543 Audubon, John Woodhouse, 134 Audubon, Maria R., 134 Audubon and his journals, 134 Aurelius, Marcus, 460 Austen, Jane, 6, 85 Austin, Mary, 296 Auswanderers Schicksal, 581 Aus zwei Weltteilen, 586 Authorship of the fourth Gospel, 208 Autobiography (Franklin) 389, 426 Autobiography (Hoar, G. F.), 351, 363 Autobiography (La Follette), 365 Autobiography of a Quack, the, 90 Autocrat of the Breakfast table, the, 306 Autumn, 44 Autumn days, 116 Awkward age, the, 106 Ayscough, 481 Bab ballads, 26 Babbitt, Irving, 491 Bache, Alexander D., 408 Bachi, Pietro, 451 Backlog