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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.) 92 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 40 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 20 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.), Chapter 18: Prescott and Motley (search)
n lies a cardinal difference between William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859) and the typical researchthrough Ticknor's interest in things Spanish, Prescott turned to that language as his next venture. t came to the literary form of the narrative, Prescott followed Mably as a guide, having read his Éht, indeed, masses of documents to light that Prescott never heard of. Critics differ from him in coere was a division of labour, again lucky, as Prescott's biography would have been a meagre substitu light in 1855. Between Peru and Philip II Prescott made a journey to England, where he was wondeation as death came very suddenly in 1859. Prescott has been called a great amateur in the historplies. Born only a year after Leopold Ranke, Prescott missed the influence spread abroad, eventuallvocabulary now used had not come into being. Prescott made his own standards. Nor did he have the ng statesmen's voices, of activities of which Prescott was wholly ignorant. Moreover, Prescott die[35 more...]
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)
d States, 108 Political annals of the present United colonies, 107-108 Polk, J. K., 183, 291, 302 Poor Richard, 214 Pope, 63, 94, 225, 234, 237 Porter, Noah, 219 Porter, William Sydney, 365, 385, 386, 391, 393-394 Port folio, the, 162, 162 n. Post (Cincinnati), 266 n. Potter, Mary Storer, 34 Pound, Roscoe, 77 Poydras College, 295 Praed, W. M., 242 Precieuses Ridicules, 234 Prentice, George Denison, 153 Prenticeana, 153 Prescott, F. C., 63 n. Prescott, William Hickling, 123-131, 132, 136, 137, 249 Preston, Margaret J., 288, 290, 300, 302, 305, 306, 307, 309, 311 Prince, Thomas, 113 Prince and the Pauper, the, 406 Princeton, 198, 208, 219, 316 Princeton review, the, 208 Princeton Theological Seminary, 208 Proceedings of the Cambridge historical Society, 77 n. Professor at the Breakfast-Table, The, 228, 234 Prometheus (Lowell), 250 Prometheus Vinctus, 2 Prophetic pictures, the, 24 Proud, Robert, 106 Providence Gaz