Views and Reviews in American Literature, History and Fiction: First SeriesBelknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1962 - 292 sider This is a collection of literary and historical essays demonstrating Simms's importance as a literary theorist and critic. |
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... human opinion - when , in his last illness , his son proposed to read to him from some work of history , - " No , sir , I have long since done with fiction . " Such a reply might well startle and bewilder that blind and credulous ...
... human opinion - when , in his last illness , his son proposed to read to him from some work of history , - " No , sir , I have long since done with fiction . " Such a reply might well startle and bewilder that blind and credulous ...
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... human stock ; - and when they have warmed our curiosity in what concerns the great family to which we belong - strengthened our faith in what are its true virtues , and what , under proper cultiva- tion , it may become - excited our ...
... human stock ; - and when they have warmed our curiosity in what concerns the great family to which we belong - strengthened our faith in what are its true virtues , and what , under proper cultiva- tion , it may become - excited our ...
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... human sense for all human privation . In the centre of this great basin lay the wondrous lakes and lakelets of Anahuac , their borders " studded with towns and hamlets , and in the midst - like some Indian empress , with her coronal of ...
... human sense for all human privation . In the centre of this great basin lay the wondrous lakes and lakelets of Anahuac , their borders " studded with towns and hamlets , and in the midst - like some Indian empress , with her coronal of ...
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Introduction by C Hugh Holman | vii |
Note on the Text | xxxviii |
IN AMERICAN LITERATURE | 1 |
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