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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.), Chapter 14: Poe (search)
, which have justly been held to contain much of his best work as critic. F. C. Prescott, Selections from the Critical Writings of Edgar Allan Poe. p. XIX; J. M. Robertson, New essays towards a critical method, p. 117. His most distinctive gifts as critic were clearness of intellect and a faculty for analysis. Few Americansand incondite or mere verses, or both. It has been justly said that there is almost no poet between whose best and worst verse there is a wider disparity. J. M. Robertson, New essays, p. 76. His range, too, is narrower than that of any other American poet of front rank. Consistently with one of his theories already adverted tothe most judicious of his critics to constitute his chief claim to our attention. E. C. Stedman in the Stedman-Woodberry edition of Poe, Vol. x, p. XIII; and Robertson,l.c., p. 75. There are those who will not subscribe to this view, but it is plain that he was the most important figure in the history of the short story during
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.), Chapter 18: Prescott and Motley (search)
would fill the whole field adequately. There was a division of labour, again lucky, as Prescott's biography would have been a meagre substitute for the glowing partisan book. Count d'haussonville ranks the incomplete Philip II as Prescott's best work. That is a dictum hard to accept. The author's attitude towards his central figure is less slashing than Motley's, less appreciative than Martin Hume's. In so much it may be called just, but there is a certain meagreness in the treatment. Robertson seems to have affected his style, although his work on that author's Charles V was not done until two volumes of Philip II had seen the light in 1855. Between Peru and Philip II Prescott made a journey to England, where he was wonderfully received and feted during his four months visit. Oxford gave him a doctorate. In 1845 the French Institute and the Royal Society of Berlin, and in 1847 two learned societies of England, had made him a member, so that his status as a scholar was perf
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.), Index (search)
and to the South, 286 Rhodes, J. F., 193 Richardson, Samuel, 340, 391 Richmond Enquirer, the, 183 Riley, James Whitcomb, 363, 409 Rill from the town Pump, a, 22 Rip Van Winkle, 368, 401 Ripley, George, 9, 166, 192, 197, 210, 211 Rise of the Dutch republic, 129, 136, 137, 138, 140, 141 Ritchie, Alexander H., 172 Ritchie, Thomas, 183, 184, 185 River fight, the, 282 Rives, J. C., 120 Rives, John P., 183 Roane, Judge, Spencer, 84-85 Robert of Lincoln, 241 Robertson, J. M., 63 n., 66 n., 67 n. Robertson, William, 129 Robinson Crusoe, 12, 401 n. Robin Hood, 408 Roderick Hudson, 375 Rollo books, 400 Romance of certain old Clothes, 375 Rome, T. H., 264 n. Romero, S., 356 n. Root, George Frederick, 285 Rose in Bloom, 402 Rose of Sharon, a religious Souvenir, a, 174 Ross, Clinton, 388 Rossetti, W. M., 266, 271 Rousseau, 197, 205 Royster, Sarah Elmira, 56, 60 Rudder Grangers abroad, 388 Ruskin, 213, 245, 254, 339, 340