| America's Coming of Age Contributor(s): Brooks, Van Wyck (Author) |
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ISBN: 0848804333 ISBN-13: 9780848804336 Publisher: Amereon Limited OUR PRICE: $25.69 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1946 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - Social Science |
| Dewey: 973 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.7" W x 8.8" (0.50 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1915. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... It is a principle that shines impartially on the just and on the unjust that once you have a point of view all history will back you up. Everything no doubt depends upon evidence; and considering the case which has been outlined in the last chapter, an appeal to American literature, if literature really does record the spirit of a people, is an appeal that leads, I think, to evidence of a material sort. Something, in American literature, has always been wanting -- every one, I think, feels that. Aside from the question of talent, there is not, excepting Walt Whitman, one American writer who comes home to a modern American with that deep, moving, shaking impact of personality for which |