American Literary Essays

Allen Tate Amer American appeared artist beauty become called character consciousness conventional Cooper criticism culture Deerslayer E. B. White effect Emerson Emily Dickinson emotion England English essay experience expression eyes fact feel fiction genius give H. L. Mencken Hawthorne heart Henry James human humor ican ideal ideas images imagination intellectual interest jazz Karl Shapiro kind language less Lionel Trilling literary literature live look Mark Twain matter means Melville ment mind Moby Dick moral nature ness never novel novelist passion perhaps Pierre poem poet poetic poetry political present prose R. P. Blackmur reader reality Robert Frost romance seems sense social society soul speak spirit stand story T. S. Eliot tell theme things thought tion tradition true truth ture verse Whitman whole words writers wrote young