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 ican ideal ideas images imagination intellectual interest jazz Karl Shapiro kind language Leaves of Grass less literary literature live look Lowell Mark Twain matter means Melville ment mind Moby Dick moral nature ness never novel novelist Parrington passion perhaps Pierre poem poet poetic poetry political present prose R. P. Blackmur reader reality romance scholar 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 writing wrote