American critical essays
Subtitle: XIXth and XXth centuries
By: edited with an introd.
Series: World's classics -- 354
Publisher: H. Milford, Oxford University Press
Published: 1930
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 520
Subjects: Criticism.; Literature -- History and criticism.; American essays.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Poe, E. A. The poetic principle (1850); title: Emerson, R. W. Hontaigne; or, The skeptic (1850); title: Lowell, J. R. Hamlet (1868) Wordsworth (1875); title: Whitman, W. Preface, 'Leaves of grass' (1855); title: Howells, W. D. Realism and the American novel (1892); title: James, H. The art of fiction (1884); title: Gates, L. E. Impressionism and appreciation (1900); title: Woodberry, G. E. Man and the race (1905); title: Brownell, W. C. Poe (1909); title: Babbitt, I. Romantic melancholy (1919); title: More, P. E. Victorian literature: The philosophy of change (1910); title: Frye, P. H. The idea of Greek tragedy (1922); title: Spingarn, J. E. The new criticism (1910); title: Sherman, S. P. The democracy of Mark Twain (1917); title: Brooks, Van W. 'Our poets' (1915)