A History of American Literature, 1607-1865
Author : William Peterfield Trent
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Page : 632 pages
File Size : 23,88 MB
Release : 1903
Category : American literature
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A Brief History of American Literature (Classic Reprint)
Author : William P. Trent
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Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 2015-07-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781330679715
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Excerpt from A Brief History of American Literature In this book, which is designed for the use of schools, I - have endeavoured to furnish a condensed account of the development of American literature, rather than a series of connected essays on leading American authors. At the same time I have tried to mention no writer or book devoid of a fair amount of significance, and I have also had it in mind to treat the more important authors on a scale sufficiently extended to suit the needs of the average class. I have aimed to minimize tentative criticism and to give only such details of historical setting as could not well be spared. I have condensed the bibliographical information to dimensions more or less proportionate with the resources of school libraries and have divided it into sections according to chapters. The period from 1866 to the present day has been sketched in a chapter, fuller treatment of writers, many of whom are still living, not seeming advisable in view of the difficulty of maintaining an impartial attitude toward contemporaries. An appendix gives important dates, which may be used in lieu of those scattered through the text. Topics for essays and class reports will be often suggested by the paragraph headings, and teachers may sometimes find it advantageous, when time permits, to have reports made on writers and books mentioned in the Appendix but not in the text, as well as on topics treated more fully in my larger book, "A History of American Literature, 1607-1865" (1903, Appleton). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Brief History of American Literature
Author : William Peterfield Trent
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 30,80 MB
Release : 2019-02-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780469992481
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A History of American Literature, 1607-1865
Author : William Peterfield Trent
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 36,2 MB
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781330159125
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Excerpt from A History of American Literature, 1607-1865 Again, a magnified scale applied to American literature makes it possible to deal with the worthy pioneer authors of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods as though they were reputable and fairly interesting men, not as though they were unpresentable progenitors always to be kept in the background. Actuated by the considerations just set forth, I have endeavoured to cover in a reasonable space and with critical standards the early periods of American literature which have been presented with such scholarly fulness in the four volumes of the late Prof. Moses Coit Tyler. For the period from 1783 to 1829, which no Tyler has made his own, I have tried to adopt the same scale and mode of treatment. For the period from 1830 to 1865 I have acknowledged to myself, and the reader will soon convince himself, that it. is impossible to treat otherwise than tentatively and to a certain extent in impressionist fashion authors who have seemed almost a part of our own generation. Holmes and Lowell are no fitter subjects for the historian and critic as opposed to the appreciator than Tennyson and Browning are. Yet, as every one knows, the task of assigning the British poets their relatively proper places in their country's literature is one that must in the main be left to later generations. Nearly half the present volume, then, is not and cannot be a history of literature in the strictest sense of the term. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A History of American Literature, 1607-1865
Author : William Peterfield Trent
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Page : 618 pages
File Size : 48,47 MB
Release : 1907
Category : American literature
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A History of American Literature, Vol. 1
Author : Moses Coit Tyler
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780267554072
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Excerpt from A History of American Literature, Vol. 1: 1607 1676 IN the two volumes here devoted to the History of American Literature prior to the American Revolution, I have not undertaken to give either a dictionary of all Colo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A History of American Literature
Author : Moses Coit Tyler
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Page : 660 pages
File Size : 34,33 MB
Release : 2015-07-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781331287803
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Excerpt from A History of American Literature: During the Colonial Period 1607-1765 In the two volumes here devoted to the History of American Literature prior to the american Revolution, I have not undertaken to give either dictionary of all Colonial list of all American writings that have survived to us from the Colonial Time. It is our early literary history that I here endeavor to set forth; - that is, the history of those writings produced by Americans during the period of our undisturbed subordination to England, which have some noteworthy value as literature, and some real significance in the literary unfolding of the American mind. But within the barriers fixed the nature of this scheme, my work does aspire to be exhaustive. I have tried to examine the entire mass of American writings, during the Colonial Time, so far this country; and in the exercise of a most anxious judgment, and of a desire for completeness that has not grown weary even under physical fatigue, I have aimed in these volumes to make an appropriate mention of every one of our early authors whose writings, whether many or few, have any appreciable literary merit, or throw any helpful light upon the evolution of thought and of style in America, during those flourishing and indispensable days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
American Literature, 1607-1885
Author : Charles Francis Richardson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 18,81 MB
Release : 2017-10-23
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ISBN : 9780266662471
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Excerpt from American Literature, 1607-1885: The Development of American Thought, American Poetry and Fiction In American criticism of American literature, it is surely not less necessary that a true perspective be attained, if possible. How shall it be reached, with out much aid from past centuries so far as our point of view is concerned; without material assistance, save in minor matters, from foreign essayists; and with a constantly changing army of writers, quite crowding our literary field, and winning a hurried praise that is soon, perhaps, to change to equally unjust blame? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
American Prose (1607-1865)
Author : Walter Cochrane Bronson
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Page : 758 pages
File Size : 11,2 MB
Release : 1916
Category : American prose literature
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History of American Literature (Classic Reprint)
Author : Leonidas Warren Payne
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780331674583
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Excerpt from History of American Literature Historical Background. The colonial period of our literature extends from the first permanent settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607, to the calling of the Stamp Act Congress in 176 5. It is the period of beginnings, the seedtime, as it were, for the later growth into flower and fruitage during the period of our independent national life. The first business of the colonists was to establish themselves, on the new continent - to clear the forests and build homes, open up farms and pasture lands, construct roads and estab lish means of transportation and communication, overcome the hostile Indian tribes, and organize all the forces for a new religious, social, and economic life. This constructive and formative work naturally consumed the interests and energies of the colonists so largely that little time was left for the development of literature. Moreover, there was no unity of government or of purpose in the earlier part of the colonial period. Different European nations had established colonies on the new continent, and a struggle for supremacy inevitably followed. The history of the colonial period gives us the details of this struggle for supremacy, a struggle which, after narrowing down to a fierce conflict between France and England was'finally settled in England's favor by the Treaty of Paris in 176 3. Tendencies toward union. Naturally during the latter part of this struggle the English colonies were drawn into a. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
