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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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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 10: a New nation (search)
ss has been noted in France and England, however, where different causes have been at work. No one can tell, in truth, what makes some plants in the literary garden wither at the same moment that others are outgrowing their borders. There is one plant in our own garden, however, whose flourishing state will be denied by nobodynamely, that kind of nature-writing identified with Thoreau and practised by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Starr King, John Burroughs, John Muir, Clarence King, Bradford Torrey, Theodore Roosevelt, William J. Long, Thompson-Seton, Stewart Edward White, and many others. Their books represent, Professor Canby Back to Nature, by H. S. Canby, Yale review, July, 1917. believes, the adventures of the American subconsciousness, the promptings of forgotten memories, a racial tradition of contact with the wilderness, and hence one of the most genuinely American traits of our literature. Other forms of essay writing, surely, have seemed in our own generation les
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)
nctively think of George Kennan and his The Siberian exile system (1891) and follow him into Tent life in Siberia through two editions, 1871 and 1910. From there we run back On Canada's frontier (1892) with Julian Ralph, and then Down historic Waterways (1888) with Reuben Gold Thwaites, who also leads us On the storied Ohio (1897), after which he holds up the mirror to previous travellers in thirty-two volumes of Early Western travels (1904-06). If we are interested in botany, there is Bradford Torrey, who contributed to Reports on Western exploration, and wrote independently A Florida sketch Book (1894), Spring notes from Tennessee (1895), and Footing it in Franconia (1901). The war with Spain landed the United States in the Philippines, clear across the wide western ocean, thus at last forging the final link in the chain stretching westward from Europe to Cathay, and proving ultimately Senator Benton's prophecy as he pointed towards the sunset and said: There lies the road to In
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)
), 322 Times (London), 568 Times (N. Y.), 321, 322, 325, 326 Tippo Saib and others, 582 Titian, 96 To Anacreon in heaven, 494 Todd, C. B., 541 n. Todd, Mabel Loomis, 33 Todd, Mary, 371 To have and to hold, 91, 287, 550 Tolstoy, 81, 83, 87, 92, 606 Tome, Philip, 154 To-Morrow, 277 Tom Sawyer, 15, 16, 20 Tom Sawyer abroad, 15 Tom Sawyer, detective, 5 Tony the Bootblack, 287 Tools and the man, 217 Too much Johnson, 285 Torrence, Ridgely, 267 Torrey, Bradford, 165 Tourgee, Albion Winegar, 86, 352 Townsend, Edward Waterman, 26 Toymaker of Niiremburg, the, 292 Tracy, Destutt, 429-30 Trades Review, 438 Tragic muse, the, 103 Trail of the Lonesome Pine, 288 Train, George Francis, 145 Traits of American Indian life and character by a Fur trader, 137 Tramp abroad, a, 10 Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching, 497 Transactions (Am. Antiquarian Society), 445 n. Trans-Atlantic historical solidarity, 198 Transcendentalism