Purpose and place
Subtitle: essays on American writers.
Publisher: Macmillan; St Martin's Press
Published: 1965
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism.
Other titles: Times literary supplement.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Most of these essays have appeared as review articles in The Times literary supplement, across the past four years."
Table of contents: title: After Adam.; title: Edward Taylor: poet in a wilderness.; title: James Fenimore Cooper: American dreamer.; title: Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1: the light and the dark.; title: Nathaniel Hawthorne, 2: wizards both.; title: Herman Melville: information into wisdom.; title: Edgar Allan Poe: the croak of the raven.; title: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: fellow of anonymous.; title: Ralph Waldo Emerson: the writing on the wall.; title: Henry D. Thoreau: ripples on Walden Pond.; title: Walt Whitman, 1: the bird of freedom.; title: Walt Whitman, 2: poet of "the modern."; title: Walt Whitman, 3: Walt Whitman and his English admirers.; title: Emily Dickinson: the woman in white.; title: The American lyric.; title: Mark Twain: how the expert works.; title: W. D. Howells: boy of the golden West.; title: Henry James: the American abroad.; title: Stephen Crane: kinds of courage and realism.; title: Willa Cather: the frontier dream.; title: Robert Frost: English, by adoption.; title: Sinclair Lewis: an American life.; title: Ernest Hemingway, 1: the bruiser and the poet.; title: Ernest Hemingway, 2: men without women.; title: William Faulkner: the last of William Faulkner.; title: Postscripts: The great tradition. The give-and-take of English.