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xii, 520 p. ; 16 cm. |
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World's classics, 354
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Introduction -- Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, The Poetic principle (1850) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, Montaigne; or The skeptic (1850) -- James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891, Hamlet (1868), Wordsworth (1875) -- Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, Preface, Leaves of Grass (1855) -- William Dean Howells, 1837-1920, Realism and the American novel (1892) -- Henry James, 1843-1916, The Art of fiction (1884) -- Lewis E. Gates, 1860-1924, Impressionism and appreciation (1900) -- George Edward Woodberry, 1855-1930, Man and the race (1905) -- W. C. Brownell, 1851-1928, Poe (1909) -- Irving Babbitt, 1865-1933, Romantic melancholy (1919) -- Paul Elmer More, 1864-1937, Victorian literature: the philosophy of change (1910) -- Prosser Hall Frye, 1866- The Idea of Greek tragedy (1922) -- J. E. Spingarn, 1875- The New criticism (1910) -- Stuart P. Sherman, 1881-1926, The Democracy of Mark Twain (1917) -- Van Wyck Brooks, 1886- Our poets (1915). |
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Criticism.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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American essays.
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