INTENSIVE STUDIES IN AMERICAN

LITERATURE

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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

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AMERICAN LITERATURE

BY

ALMA BLOUNT, PH. D. (CORNELL)

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN THE MICHIGAN STATE
NORMAL COLLEGE

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1914

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COPYRIGHT, 1914

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Set up and electrotyped. Published January, 1914.

AMBOTLIAD

TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER,

Joseph Blount, M. D.,

WHOSE APPRECIATIVE READING WAS MY FIRST INSTRUCTION IN LITERATURE.

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