American Literary EssaysLewis Gaston Leary Crowell, 1960 - 318 páginas |
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... prose so incisive and sensible that he stands with honor as the first recognized essayist in our language . And after Bacon , the floodgates opened , as aphoris- tic or plain - spoken opinion flowed from the pens of many seventeenth ...
... prose so incisive and sensible that he stands with honor as the first recognized essayist in our language . And after Bacon , the floodgates opened , as aphoris- tic or plain - spoken opinion flowed from the pens of many seventeenth ...
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... prose . So conceived , poetry would deserve the judgment passed by Plato on all the arts of flattery and entertainment ; it might be crowned as delightful , but must be either banished altogether as meretricious or at least confined to ...
... prose . So conceived , poetry would deserve the judgment passed by Plato on all the arts of flattery and entertainment ; it might be crowned as delightful , but must be either banished altogether as meretricious or at least confined to ...
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... prose composition , from the very nature of prose itself , much longer than we can persevere , to any good purpose , in the perusal of a poem . This latter , if truly fulfilling the demands of the poetic sentiment , induces an exalta ...
... prose composition , from the very nature of prose itself , much longer than we can persevere , to any good purpose , in the perusal of a poem . This latter , if truly fulfilling the demands of the poetic sentiment , induces an exalta ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes 18091894 | 5 |
Washington Irving 17831859 | 16 |
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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