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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.) 114 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 36 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life 18 0 Browse Search
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Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 13 1 Browse Search
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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 5: the Knickerbocker group (search)
h of character as well as of literary skill. But the skill was very noticeable also. Irving's prose is not that of the Defoe-Swift-Franklin-Paine type of plain talk to the crowd. It is rather an inheritance from that other eighteenth century tradition, the conversation of the select circle. Its accents were heard in Steele and Addison and were continued in Goldsmith, Sterne, Cowper, and Charles Lamb. Among Irving's successors, George William Curtis and Charles Dudley Warner and William Dean Howells have been masters of it likewise. It is mellow human talk, delicate, regardful, capable of exquisite modulation. With instinctive artistic taste, Irving used this old and sound style upon fresh American material. In Rip van Winkle and The legend of Sleepy Hollow he portrayed his native valley of the Hudson, and for a hundred years connoisseurs of style have perceived the exquisite fitness of the language to the images and ideas which Irving desired to convey. To render the Far Wes
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 10: a New nation (search)
aign biographies of Lincoln in 1860 was William Dean Howells, then an Ohio journalist of twenty-three. In 1917, at the age of eighty, Mr. Howells is still adding to his long row of charming and memo piece together, from no other sources than Mr. Howells's writings, an unrivaled picture of our boor understanding of the type. They were William Dean Howells and Henry James. Mr. Howells, who, in Mr. Howells, who, in his own words, can reasonably suppose that it is because of the mixture of Welsh, German, and Irishgroup; and the latter novel may prove to be Mr. Howells's chief visiting-card to posterity. We caned in the eighteen-eighties over the books of Howells and James. We must content ourselves with saying that a knowledge of Mr. Howells's work is essential to the student of the American provincial men who ruled over our literature when young Howells came out of the West, and My Mark Twain is hi by Ticknor and Fields. In 1881 he succeeded Howells in the editorship of the Atlantic. Aldrich h[3 more...]
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Index. (search)
aine, J. G., quoted, 163 Blithedale romance, the, Hawthorne 145-46, 150-51 Boston news-letter, 60 Boy's town, a, Howells 250 Bracebridge Hall, Irving 91 Bradford, William, 28 Bradstreet, Anne, 36-37 Bridge, the, Longfellow 156 Brigscendentalism, 143; life and writings, 144-52; typically American, 265 Hayne, Paul, 225 Hazard of New Fortunes, a, Howells 251 Hearn, Lafcadio, 248 Hecker, Father, 141 Henry, Patrick, 72, 209 Herons of Elmwood, the, Longfellow 156 Hiosier schoolmaster, the, Eggleston 247 House of the seven Gables, the, Hawthorne 145, 150 Hovey, Richard, 257 Howells, W. D., 93, 234-35, 250-51, 265 Hubbard, William, 39 Huckleberry Finn, Clemens 238 Humorists, American, 239 HutchiWister, Owen, 243 Woodberry, George, 257 Woodworth. Samuel, 107 Woolman, John, 69 Wonder-book, the, Hawthorne 145, 147 Wreck of the Hesprus, the, Longfellow 155 Wister, Owen, 243 Yale University, 62 Years of my youth, Howells 250