Song to Generations: Fragments from British and American ClassicsSeven Seas Publishers, 1961 - 267 pages |
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... writing in its wake : the frontier story , with its braggadocio . It flaunted callous hands in the face of British nicety . It produced the Tall Tale . David Crockett , author of A Useful Coon - Skin ( 1833 ) , was a backwoods ...
... writing in its wake : the frontier story , with its braggadocio . It flaunted callous hands in the face of British nicety . It produced the Tall Tale . David Crockett , author of A Useful Coon - Skin ( 1833 ) , was a backwoods ...
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... writers was generous , Hazlitt's criticism is sharp , stemming from that sense of reality which all of his writing reflects . The fragment On Burns ( from " Lectures on the English Poets " , 1818 to 1819 ) proves that if Hazlitt's ...
... writers was generous , Hazlitt's criticism is sharp , stemming from that sense of reality which all of his writing reflects . The fragment On Burns ( from " Lectures on the English Poets " , 1818 to 1819 ) proves that if Hazlitt's ...
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... writers strove to bring literature to the people by using English as their writing language . As thought outgrew the older literary forms and as social struggle sought a new medium of expression , the poets and prose writers stubbornly ...
... writers strove to bring literature to the people by using English as their writing language . As thought outgrew the older literary forms and as social struggle sought a new medium of expression , the poets and prose writers stubbornly ...
Contents
HUMAN FRAILTIES AS THEY SAW THEM | 13 |
AS THEY SAW THEMSELVES | 44 |
AS THEY SAW ONE ANOTHER | 83 |
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