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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 28 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 10: a New nation (search)
ter that the influence cannot be measured short of two or three generations. Let us begin with the West, and with that joyous stage-coach journey of young Samuel L. Clemens across the plains to Nevada in 1861, which he describes in Roughing it. Who was this Argonaut of the new era, and what makes him representative of his countand then tosses it away. John Phoenix, Josh Billings, Jack Downing, Bill Arp, Petroleum V. Nasby, Artemus Ward, Bill Nye-these are already obsolescent names. If Clemens lacked something of Artemus Ward's whimsical delicacy and of Josh Billings's tested human wisdom, he surpassed all of his competitors in a certain rude, healthy ms well than Mark Twain as a personal figure, but has a sure place in the evolution of the American short story, and he did for the mining-camps of California what Clemens wrought for the Mississippi River: he became their profane poet. Yet he was never really of them. He was the clever outsider, with a prospector's eye, looking f
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Index. (search)
brated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, the, Clemens 237 Century magazine, 256 Changeling, thearke, J. F., 141 Clay, Ienry, 208, 209-11 Clemens, S. L. (Mark Twain), attacks Cooper's novels,g address, Lincoln 230-231 Gilded age, the, Clemens 237-238 God glorified in man's Dependence, 65 Hubbard, William, 39 Huckleberry Finn, Clemens 238 Humorists, American, 239 Hutchinsoncan biography, 176 Life on the Mississippi, Clemens 237 Ligeia, Poe 193 Lincoln, Abraham, recllow 156 Man who Corrupted Hadleyburg, the, Clemens 238 Man without a country, Hale, 224 Marbndows, Lowell 170 Mysterious Stranger, the, Clemens 238 National Gazette, 71 National literatq. Roosevelt, Theodore, 243 Roughing it, Clemens 10, 237 Rowlandson, Mary, 39 Rules for Rey, 225 To Helen, Poe 189, 192 Tom Sawyer, Clemens 238 Tour of the prairies, Irving 91 Transrman, F. G., quoted, 117 Twain, Mark, see Clemens, S. L. Twicetold tales, Hawthorne 148 Ty[1 more...]