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As the prominent Imagist poet Amy Lowell observes in the preface to her 1917 work, the "new movement" then transforming American poetry was "evidence of the rise of a native school," certainly an exciting development in American literary history. Despite their stylistic differences, early twentieth-century poets like Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, and John Gould Fletcher all represented fresh new directions in American poetry and a break from the outlook...
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English essayist William Hazlitt demonstrates the inseparable connection between laughter and tears in this extraordinary collection of lectures. Proposing that both comedy and tragedy are intensely concerned with the human condition, Hazlitt examines the similar foundations of the two, making his case with his characteristic eloquence and verve.
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This 1915 collection of literary essays reflects the author's conviction that such essays should ideally convey to readers the impact of an author or work of fiction upon the critic: no more and no less. The artists covered include Rabelais, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens, Nietzsche, Hardy, Poe, and Whitman, among other greats.
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Starting in the third quarter of the seventeenth century, Europe enjoyed a literary flowering-a rebirth of interest in classical values and rational principles of discourse, exemplified in French and British prose, verse, and drama. This 1899 overview of that literary landscape (and touching on the writings of other European countries as well) brought its author a reputation as "a scholar on the heroic scale of learning."
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Originally published in Paris in 1827, this novel follows the activities of the fictional sailor Dick Fid, a free black man named Scipio Africanus and Royal Navy officer, James Wilder as they encounter the famous pirate for whom the novel is named. This novel represents some of the first serious depictions of characters of African lineage in American literature.
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Gathered in 1914 from The Yale Review and other periodicals, this collection of critical essays considers Richardson, Dickens, Austen, and Marlowe; it also includes the articles "Notes on Mark Twain," "Realism and Reality in Fiction," "Carlyle's Love-Letters," "Schiller's Personality and Influence," "Schopenhauer and Omar," "Lessing as a Creative Critic," and more.
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The difference between a short story and a novel is more than one of length, Matthews argues in this influential 1901 work. The short story carries a "unity of impression," a totality, that the novel cannot, and requires more precise language. Matthews peppers the volume with examples from Boacaccio, Poe, Hawthorne, de Maupassant, Stevenson, Henry James, and others.
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This 1897 volume is a survey of British literature from 1830 to 1870. Of this period, Walker writes: "Next to the eighteenth century, the age of Tennyson has been the most critical in our literature." Includes studies of the works of Carlyle, Tennyson, Dickens, Thackeray, the Bröntes, Macaulay, and Arnold among others.
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In this 1918 study, Beach explores the writing method of Henry James and carefully examines how James applied this method to his novels-from his early prime (The Portrait of a Lady, etc) through his mature period (The Golden Bowl, etc). A thoughtful analysis, this book by a James expert will be of interest to all readers of the Master.
13) Adonais
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Along with John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron are generally considered the second generation of the great English Romantic poets. Shelley was an admirer of Keats's work, and though a few of the letters they exchanged reveal the somewhat rocky nature of their friendship, Shelley graciously invited Keats to join him at his residence at Pisa as his health declined. Keats, instead, removed himself to Rome, where he succumbed to tuberculosis...
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Blind, deaf and unable to communicate from a young age, Helen Keller was eventually taught to read, write and speak with the help of an extraordinary teacher. This lead to a flowering of creativity and imagination in Keller, who went on to produce dozens of memoirs, essays, letters, and stories. The Song of the Stone Wall is a book-length poem that details Keller's participation in the construction of a wall on the grounds of her home that
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This daring tale of revenge and exotic intrigue is demonstrative of Stevenson's broad range and unique genius. "The Master of Ballantrae", first published in 1889, follows the conflict between two Scottish brothers of noble origins during the tumultuous Jacobite Risings of 1745. Greed and envy threaten to tear the brothers apart as a race for the family inheritance intensifies. James Durie, the protagonist and Master of Ballantrae, is as charming...
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This 1922 collection of acute literary essays includes pieces on Nietzsche, Ibsen, Conrad, Crane, Frost, and others. The sensibility informing this volume may be inferred from the following, taken from Garnett's preface: "The publisher's reader knows what literary success signifies: he has no need to cultivate his sense of irony."
17) The Claverings
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Anthony Trollope mixes love, money, and ambition in his love triangles — which has kept his fans reading his work addictively ever since Queen Victoria. In this 1867 novel, Harry Clavering, an ambitious civil engineer, must choose: to wed a wealthy widow and gain a life of comfort, or to honor his previous engagement — and struggle.
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The Vicar of Bullhampton is an 1870 novel by Anthony Trollope. It is made up of three intertwining subplots: the courtship of a young woman by two suitors; a feud between the titular Broad church vicar and a Low church nobleman, abetted by a Methodist minister; and the vicar's attempt to rehabilitate a young woman who has gone astray. Trollope expected his depiction of a fallen woman to be controversial, and unusually for him wrote a preface defending...
19) Is He Popenjoy?
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The year 1874 saw the conclusion in London of a much publicized court case involving an unlikely pretender to an English baronetcy. Trollope responded to the public's interest in scandal with this novel, which traces the claim of a shadowy figure to the marquisate of Brotherton. The novel is full of sensational elements and is highly revealing of the social issues of the mid-1870s.
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Doubleday, Page and Company
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1911.
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Some readers may be surprised to find out that the author responsible for creating one of the most rational, methodical characters in literary history — master detective Sherlock Holmes — was himself a dabbler in the poetic arts. Songs of the Road collects several dozen of Arthur Conan Doyle's best-known poems.
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