This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...of his best work of this sort. They show his patriotism and thorough Americanism, his fairness to opponents, and his habit of appealing to high motives, rather than to expediency; but since their literary qualities are those of the other essays they need not be discussed in detail. The greater number of the literary ...
Read More
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...of his best work of this sort. They show his patriotism and thorough Americanism, his fairness to opponents, and his habit of appealing to high motives, rather than to expediency; but since their literary qualities are those of the other essays they need not be discussed in detail. The greater number of the literary essays were written after the close of the war.1 Lowell was at his best in the discussion of the masters--Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton. Notwithstanding the excellence of his characterizations in the Fable for Critics, his few essays on contemporary writers were relatively unsuccessful. This may be due in part to his habits of study and writing. In youth he formed the practice of reading and rereading the greater works of literature, and of noting on margins and fly-leaves the impressions, criticisms, and comparisons that came into his mind at each perusal. When he came, relatively late in life, to 1 Many of these were first published in the Atlantic Monthly and the North American Review, and were collected into the volumes called by his publishers Among my Books (1870, second series 1876), and My Study Windows (1871). As early as 1845 Lowell had issued a volume of Conversations on Some of the Old Poets. Latest Literary Essays and Addresses was almost ready for the printer at the time of his death. write essays on these works, he had a rich mass of material at hand. The inclusion of comments made years apart and in different moods sometimes interfered a little with the unity and consistency of the essays, but it added greatly to their suggestiveness and human interest. Lowell's essays are, indeed, the personal comments of a delightful, whimsical, sympathetic man. Other essays are better for the beginner in search of biographical informatio...
Read Less
Add this copy of American Literature for Secondary Schools to cart. $63.74, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Palala Press.
