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Henry A. Beers
Initial Studies in American Letters
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066163938
Table of Contents
INITIAL STUDIES IN AMERICAN LETTERS.
PAYING TOO DEAR FOR THE WHISTLE.
SOUTH CAROLINA AND MASSACHUSETTS.
FROM "THE FALL OP THE HOUSE OF USHER."
ON THE DEATH OF JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
PREFACE.
This volume is intended as a companion to the historical sketch of English literature, entitled From Chaucer to Tennyson, published last year for the Chautauqua Circle. In writing it I have followed the same plan, aiming to present the subject in a sort of continuous essay rather than in the form of a "primer" or elementary manual. I have not undertaken to describe, or even to mention, every American author or book of importance, but only those which seemed to me of most significance. Nevertheless I believe that the sketch contains enough detail to make it of some use as a guide-book to our literature. Though meant to be mainly a history of American belles-lettres, it makes