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Purpose and place; essays on American writers
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- The Times literary supplement
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- English
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- London : Macmillan; New York : St Martin's Press, 1965
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- viii, 201 pages ; 23 cm
- OCLC
- ocm00211839
- "Most of these essays have appeared as review articles in The Times literary supplement, across the past four years."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- After Adam.--Edward Taylor: poet in a wilderness.--James Fenimore Cooper: American dreamer.--Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1: the light and the dark.--Nathaniel Hawthorne, 2: wizards both.--Herman Melville: information into wisdom.--Edgar Allan Poe: the croak of the raven.--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: fellow of anonymous.--Ralph Waldo Emerson: the writing on the wall.--Henry D. Thoreau: ripples on Walden Pond.--Walt Whitman, 1: the bird of freedom.--Walt Whitman, 2: poet of "the modern."--Walt Whitman, 3: Walt Whitman and his English admirers.--Emily Dickinson: the woman in white.--The American lyric.--Mark Twain: how the expert works.--W. D. Howells: boy of the golden West.--Henry James: the American abroad.--Stephen Crane: kinds of courage and realism.--Willa Cather: the frontier dream.--Robert Frost: English, by adoption.--Sinclair Lewis: an American life.--Ernest Hemingway, 1: the bruiser and the poet.--Ernest Hemingway, 2: men without women.--William Faulkner: the last of William Faulkner.--Postscripts: The great tradition. The give-and-take of English