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William Spengemann
Describes the different sorts of poetry Whitman, Dickinson, and Melville wrote, their comparable reasons for writing, and the posthumous critical effects of their having done so.
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This text features selections from Bryant, Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier and Holmes. It includes poems by Poe and Emerson as well as Whitman, Dickinson and Melville. The introduction discusses the impact…
Henry James
Christopher Newman, an American millionaire in France, falls in love with the aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde. Her family, however, taken aback by his brash American manner, rejects his proposal of…
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Includes writings from major stages in the career of Nathaniel Hawthorne: a number of his most intriguing early tales, all of The Scarlet Letter , excerpts from his three subsequently…
William C. Spengemann
Redefines early American literature calling it writings in English that reflect or have been influenced by the discovery, exploration and settlement of the New World, arguing that linguistic criteria is…
Herman Melville
Contains one long brain-muddling, soul-bewildering ambiguity, like Melchisedeck, without beginning or end - a labyrinth without a clue - an Irish bog without so much as a Jacko ‘the’ lantern…
