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333 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The American heritage series, no. 16
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American heritage series (New York, N.Y.) ; no. 16.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The American Accent in Criticism -- Literary Criticism in America: -- Essa on American Language and Literature / Walter Channing -- From Randolph, Preface to The Down-Easters / John Neal -- On Originality and Imitation / William Cullen Bryant -- Review of New Books, Tale Writing - Mr. Hawthorne / Edgar Allan Poe -- The Poet / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Coleridge as a Philosophical Critic / E.P.Whipple -- Preface to The House of the Seven Gables / Nathaniel hawthorne -- The Function of the Poet / James Russell Lowell -- Preface to Leaves of Grass / Walt Whitman -- The Art of Fiction / Henry James -- From Criticism and Fiction, The What and the How in Art / William Dean Howells -- The Elements and Functio of Poetry / George Santayana -- An Apoplgy for Technic / Brander Matthews -- Tradition and the Individual Talent / T.S.Eliot -- The Critical Process / H.L.Mencken -- The Critic and American Life / Irving Babbitt -- Poets Without Laurels / John Crowe Ransom -- The Figure a Poem Makes / Robert Frost -- Philoctetes: The Wound and the Bow / Edmund Wilson -- Language as Gesture / Richard P. Blackmur |
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Criticism -- United States.
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Criticism. |
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United States. |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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