Classic Americans : a study of eminent American writers from Irving to Whitman, with an introductory survey of the colonial background of our national literature / by Henry Seidel Canby

Author: Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961
Published: New York : Harcourt, Brace, [1931]
Copyright Date: [©1931]
Edition: 1st ed.
Physical Description: xvii, 371 pages ; 23 cm

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Contents

The colonial background -- Washington Irving -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry David Thoreau -- Hawthorne and Melville -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Walt Whitman.

Subject(s)

American literature—19th century—History and criticism
American literature—Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775—History and criticism

Collection

Fred Lewis Pattee Collection.

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography Note

"A selective bibliography": pages 353-360.

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