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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 | 32 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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.) | 22 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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.) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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The shadow of Europe
when the first ocean steamers crossed the Atlantic, about 1838, Willis predicted that they would only make American literature more provincial, by bringing Europe so much nearer than before.
Yet Emerson showed that there was an influence at work more potent than steamers, and the colonial spirit in bsurd supposition.
But either of our great illustrated magazines has now more readers in England than Fraser or Blackwood had then in America; and to this extent Willis's prediction is unfulfilled, and the shadow of Europe is lifted, not deepened, over our literature.
But in many ways the glamour of foreign superiority still hol k Minster, and later to have postponed Stonehenge, which seemed likely to endure, for Tennyson, who perhaps might not. The young American sees in London, to quote Willis again, whole shelves of his library walking about in coats and gowns, and they seem for the moment far more interesting than the similar shelves in home-made garm
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