THE essays and sketches of which this volume is composed are taken, as the name implies, from "The Critic." In the conviction that some, if not all of them, are, despite their brevity, of permanent literary value, it has been deemed well to reproduce them in a form more durable than that of a fortnightly review. This step is rendered doubly advisable by the fact that "The Critic" is already out of print. * * * * * CONTENTS. I. Thoreau's Wildness. John Burroughs II. "William Blake, Poet and Painter Edmund C. ...
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THE essays and sketches of which this volume is composed are taken, as the name implies, from "The Critic." In the conviction that some, if not all of them, are, despite their brevity, of permanent literary value, it has been deemed well to reproduce them in a form more durable than that of a fortnightly review. This step is rendered doubly advisable by the fact that "The Critic" is already out of print. * * * * * CONTENTS. I. Thoreau's Wildness. John Burroughs II. "William Blake, Poet and Painter Edmund C. Stedman II. Death of Carlyle. Walt Whitman III. Death or Longfellow. Walt Whitman V. George Eliot and the Novel. Edward Eggleston VI. Frances Hodgson Burnett. R. H. Stoddard VII. Thoreau's Unpublished Poetry. F. B. Sanborn VIII. Emerson and the Superlative. John Burroughs IX. A Company of Spring Poets. Edith M. Thomas X. Nature in Literature. John Burroughs XI. Austin Dobson. E. W. Gosse XII. Alphonse Daudet. P. M. Potter XIII. The Boston Culture. J. H. Morse XIV. The Late Sidney Lanier. E. C. Stedman XV. English Society and Endymion. Julia Ward Howe XVI. Historical Criticism of Christ. H. W. Bellows XVII. Whitman's Leaves of Grass
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 5" x 7 1/4"; GOOD /NO DUST JACKET. Former Library Book. 185 pp. Text clean and unmarked except for usual library treatments. Top edge gilt. Pages slightly yellowed. Green cloth boards lettered in gilt at front and spine. Edges slightly rubbed, lower corners bumped, spine top starting to fray. Joints and hinges good, binding firm. Includes reviews of works by Thoreau, William Blake, Carlyle, Longfellow, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Emerson, and Whitman, among others.
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