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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 80 0 Browse Search
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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.) 28 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 24 0 Browse Search
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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 12 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 11 1 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 8 0 Browse Search
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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 10: a New nation (search)
indigenous qualities of their own, but typically they belong to the colonial literature of Great Britain. This can scarcely be said of the writings of Franklin and Jefferson, and it certainly cannot be said of the writings of Cooper, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Lowell, Lincoln, Mark Twain, and Mr. Howells. In the pages of these men and of hundreds of others less distinguished, there is a revelation of a new national type. That the full energies of this nation have been back of our final word either of blame or praise. It is a word of useful characterization. Only American books, and not books written in English in America, can adequately represent our national contribution to the world's thinking and feeling. So argued Emerson and Whitman, long ago. But the younger of these two poets came to realize in his old age that the New World and the Old World are fundamentally one. The literature of the New World will inevitably have an accent of its own, but it must speak t
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Index. (search)
2), 255; typically American, 265; argues for American books, 266 England in the 17th century, 13 English traits, Emerson 128 Essay on man, Pope 55 Essays, Emerson 125-26, 127, 128 Essays of the 20th century, 262-63 Eternal GoodnessEmerson 125-26, 127, 128 Essays of the 20th century, 262-63 Eternal Goodness, the, Whittier 161 Ethan Brand, Hawthorne 134 Evangeline, Longfellow 155 Evening Revery, an, Bryant 106 Everett, Edward, Oration at Cambridge (1826), 86; quoted, 87; lectures, 111-12; estimate of, 215; quoted, 230 Excelsior, Longfellow hn of Barneveld, life and death of, Motley 181 Johnson, Edward, Captain, 38 Joshua Whitcomb, Thompson 248 Journal, Emerson 122, 125, 127, 235 Journal, Thoreau 134, 135 Journal, Woolman 69 Journal and correspondence, Longfellow 216 Jourranger, the, Clemens 238 National Gazette, 71 National literature, Channing 112 National Ode, Taylor 255 Nature, Emerson 123, 128, 131 Nature-writing, 262 Netherlands, history of the United, Motley 181 New England, a digression from