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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... poet . " When we shall have existed as a people as long as the Greeks did before they produced a Homer , the Romans ... poets . . . . As in philosophy and war , so in government , in oratory , in painting , in the plastic art , we might ...
... poet . " When we shall have existed as a people as long as the Greeks did before they produced a Homer , the Romans ... poets . . . . As in philosophy and war , so in government , in oratory , in painting , in the plastic art , we might ...
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... poet at all or not . It was by properly understanding this difference in ancient days that he grew into the stature of the poet , and won his reputation ; and it was through the proper comprehension of this difference and this duty , on ...
... poet at all or not . It was by properly understanding this difference in ancient days that he grew into the stature of the poet , and won his reputation ; and it was through the proper comprehension of this difference and this duty , on ...
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... poet was provoked to history , was no victim to the infernal sports of the amphitheatre ; - should it be shown that he was a Spartan shield - bearer , or herald , slain by sudden shaft upon the road - side , and not a barbarian dragged ...
... poet was provoked to history , was no victim to the infernal sports of the amphitheatre ; - should it be shown that he was a Spartan shield - bearer , or herald , slain by sudden shaft upon the road - side , and not a barbarian dragged ...
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Introduction by C Hugh Holman | vii |
Note on the Text | xxxviii |
IN AMERICAN LITERATURE | 1 |
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