A Short History of America's Literature: With Selections from Colonial and Revolutionary WritersHoughton Mifflin, 1920 - 255 páginas |
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... graceful , imagi- native verse as can be found . The scene is laid in Fairy- land , and Fairyland is somewhere among the Highlands of the Hudson . The fairy hero loves a beautiful mortal , and , as a punishment , is doomed to penances ...
... graceful , imagi- native verse as can be found . The scene is laid in Fairy- land , and Fairyland is somewhere among the Highlands of the Hudson . The fairy hero loves a beautiful mortal , and , as a punishment , is doomed to penances ...
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... graceful , and they were copied by scores of papers . When Willis came home , five years later , he edited the Home ... gracefully written and people liked to read them . A few of the poems , such as The Belfry Pigeon , Unseen Spirits ...
... graceful , and they were copied by scores of papers . When Willis came home , five years later , he edited the Home ... gracefully written and people liked to read them . A few of the poems , such as The Belfry Pigeon , Unseen Spirits ...
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... put that knowledge into words with so accurate and delicate a touch . one else has treated the supernatural in so fascinating a No manner or has mingled so gracefully the prosaic and the 56 [ 1804-1864 AMERICA'S LITERATURE.
... put that knowledge into words with so accurate and delicate a touch . one else has treated the supernatural in so fascinating a No manner or has mingled so gracefully the prosaic and the 56 [ 1804-1864 AMERICA'S LITERATURE.
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... gracefully the prosaic and the ideal . No one else has manifested such perfection of literary style . Longfellow has well said : Ah ! who shall lift that wand of magic power , And the lost clew regain ? The unfinished window in ...
... gracefully the prosaic and the ideal . No one else has manifested such perfection of literary style . Longfellow has well said : Ah ! who shall lift that wand of magic power , And the lost clew regain ? The unfinished window in ...
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... heart , for fascinating treatment of the supernatural , for graceful mingling of the prosaic and the ideal , and for perfection of literary style . CHAPTER V THE NATIONAL PERIOD , 1815- I. EARLIER YEARS 58 [ 1815-1865 AMERICA'S LITERATURE.
... heart , for fascinating treatment of the supernatural , for graceful mingling of the prosaic and the ideal , and for perfection of literary style . CHAPTER V THE NATIONAL PERIOD , 1815- I. EARLIER YEARS 58 [ 1815-1865 AMERICA'S LITERATURE.
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