American Literary Essays1960 |
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... human body can be nourished on any food , though it were boiled grass and the broth of shoes , so the human mind can be fed by any knowledge . And great and heroic men have existed who had almost no other information than by the printed ...
... human body can be nourished on any food , though it were boiled grass and the broth of shoes , so the human mind can be fed by any knowledge . And great and heroic men have existed who had almost no other information than by the printed ...
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... human society which had become in time , whatever suc- cession of invasions it may have suffered in the past , in race and religion more or less homogeneous and in which most people lived and died in the locality where they were born ...
... human society which had become in time , whatever suc- cession of invasions it may have suffered in the past , in race and religion more or less homogeneous and in which most people lived and died in the locality where they were born ...
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... human or personal terms . If Henry Adams could write : When Adams was a boy in Boston , the best chemist in the place had probably never heard of Venus except by way of scandal , or of the Virgin except as idolatry . The force of the ...
... human or personal terms . If Henry Adams could write : When Adams was a boy in Boston , the best chemist in the place had probably never heard of Venus except by way of scandal , or of the Virgin except as idolatry . The force of the ...
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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 Hawthorne Henry James human ican ideal ideas images imagination intellectual interest jazz John de Crèvecoeur 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 Thoreau thought tion tradition true truth ture verse Whitman whole words writing wrote