Purpose and place : essays on American writers
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Purpose and place : essays on American writers
Macmillan , St Martin's Press, 1965
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"Most of these essays have appeared as review articles in The Times literary supplement, across the past four years."
Includes bibliographical references
Contents of Works
- 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