The Critical Temper: Victorian literature and American literatureMartin Tucker Ungar, 1969 - American literature |
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... symbol of the cave is prompted by motives deeper than a mere devotion to the national scene , that it repre- sents with special aptness the black trap of man's own secret guilt and fear .... It should be noticed that the shift from the ...
... symbol of the cave is prompted by motives deeper than a mere devotion to the national scene , that it repre- sents with special aptness the black trap of man's own secret guilt and fear .... It should be noticed that the shift from the ...
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... symbol of the national experience of adventure across the continent . The similarities that link Leatherstocking to both the actual Boone and the various Boones of popu- lar legend are not merely fortuitous . Henry Nash Smith Virgin ...
... symbol of the national experience of adventure across the continent . The similarities that link Leatherstocking to both the actual Boone and the various Boones of popu- lar legend are not merely fortuitous . Henry Nash Smith Virgin ...
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... symbolism is enacted over and over . Though he never goes far beyond the breaking of the shell , he exemplifies in the most circumstancial way the new sensi- bility in the act of emergence . Emerson's failing was a lack of literary pur ...
... symbolism is enacted over and over . Though he never goes far beyond the breaking of the shell , he exemplifies in the most circumstancial way the new sensi- bility in the act of emergence . Emerson's failing was a lack of literary pur ...
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Matthew Arnold 18221888 | 3 |
Walter Bagehot 18261877 | 16 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 18061861 | 30 |
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