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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.) 4 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)
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 chiefly in history, travel, biography, and such works of imagination as one puts on a five-foot shelf —Shakespeare and the Bible, Suetonius's Lives of the Coesars, Malory, Cellini, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, the Memoirs of Casanova, Lecky's History of civilization, and Carlyle's French Revolution In his prose as in the verse of Whitman there is an appearance of free improvisation concealing a more or less novel and deliberate art. So far as I know, wrote W. D. Howells in 191, Mr. Clemens is the first writer to use in extended writing the fashion we all use in thinking, and to set down the thing that comes into his mind without fear or favour of the thing that went before, or the thing that may be about to follow. Beside
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)
lette, 593, 594 Law of mind, the, 247 Lawrence, Wm. Beach, 434 Lawrence Scientific School, 101 Laws of wages, the, 434 Lawson, T. W., 317 Lawton, E., 435 Lazarre, 90 Lazarus, Emma, 47, 121-22 Lea, Henry Charles, 194-5, 200 Lea, Isaac, 194 Leacock, S., 27 n. Leah the forsaken, 271 Leather Stocking and Silk, 67 Leatherwood God, the, 84 Leaves from the diary of an Impressionist, 155 Lebensbilder aus der Westlichen Hemisphare, 579 L'Echo National, 593 Lecky, W. E. H., 6 Le Colon Voyageur, 591 Le Comte de Carmagnola, 592 Le Comte de Monte Christo, 592 Le Conte, 244, 246 n. Le Courrier Francais, 591 Lectures (Channing, E. T.), 471 Lectures (Hudson, H. N.), 482 Lectures on rhetoric and oratory, 471 Lectures on Roman law, 462 Lectures on Science, 434 Lectures on the elements of political economy, 433 Lectures on the English language, 473 Lectures on the history of protection, 440 Lectures on the philosophy and practice o