Literary criticism in America.
Series: Essay index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: Criticism -- United States; American literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Reprint of the 1957 ed.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the American accent in criticism, by A. D. Van Nostrand.; title: Essay on American language and literature, by W. Channing.; title: From Randolph. Preface to The down-easters. By J. Neal.; title: On originality and imitation, by W. C. Bryant.; title: Review of new books. Tale writing: Mr. Hawthorne. By E. A. Poe.; title: The poet, by R. W. Emerson.; title: Coleridge as a philosophical critic, by E. P. Whipple.; title: Preface to The house of the seven gables, by N. Hawthorne.; title: The function of the poet, by J. R. Lowell.; title: Preface to Leaves of grass, by W. Whitman.; title: The art of fiction, by H. James.; title: From Criticism and fiction. The what and the how in art. By W. D. Howells.; title: The elements and function of poetry, by G. Santayana.; title: An apology for technic, by B. Matthews.; title: Tradition and the individual talent, by T. S. Eliot.; title: The critical process, by H. L. Mencken.; title: The critic and American life, by I. Babbitt.; title: Poets without laurels, by J. C. Ransom.; title: The figure a poem makes, by R. Frost.; title: Philoctetes: the wound and the bow, by E. Wilson.; title: Language as gesture, by R. P. Blackmur.; title: Bibliography (p. xvii-xviii)