Literary Leaders of AmericaChautauqua Press, 1904 - 316 páginas |
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... interest , since many of these early writers did not make great literature ; indeed , hardly made literature at all . Just here it would be well to make a distinction , the misunderstanding of which , I believe , often confuses the ...
... interest , since many of these early writers did not make great literature ; indeed , hardly made literature at all . Just here it would be well to make a distinction , the misunderstanding of which , I believe , often confuses the ...
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... interest in the native literature . Even if the greatest American writers - Poe , Irving , Emerson , and Hawthorne were of less than international importance , they would have a significance for us , which is the meas- ure of the truth ...
... interest in the native literature . Even if the greatest American writers - Poe , Irving , Emerson , and Hawthorne were of less than international importance , they would have a significance for us , which is the meas- ure of the truth ...
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... interest in the dramatic Pocahontas scene . As affairs in Virginia became settled and a genteel plan- tation life was developed , there might very well have sprung up a polite literature , but the Virginia gentleman preferred field ...
... interest in the dramatic Pocahontas scene . As affairs in Virginia became settled and a genteel plan- tation life was developed , there might very well have sprung up a polite literature , but the Virginia gentleman preferred field ...
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... interest predominated , and some of the names are of genuine importance as writers ; as witness those of Brad- ford , Eliot , Hooker , Roger Williams , Anne Bradstreet , Wig- glesworth , Cotton Mather , Judge Sewall , Jonathan Edwards a ...
... interest predominated , and some of the names are of genuine importance as writers ; as witness those of Brad- ford , Eliot , Hooker , Roger Williams , Anne Bradstreet , Wig- glesworth , Cotton Mather , Judge Sewall , Jonathan Edwards a ...
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... interests of the colonies furnished the dominant impulse for those who registered their thoughts in writing . For the most part , therefore , the printed works , during this quarter of a century , were practical rather than artistic ...
... interests of the colonies furnished the dominant impulse for those who registered their thoughts in writing . For the most part , therefore , the printed works , during this quarter of a century , were practical rather than artistic ...
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Literary Leaders of America: A Class-book on American Literature Richard Burton Visualização completa - 1904 |
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