Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Friendly Club and Other Portraits. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Francis Parsons, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have The Friendly Club and Other Portraits in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, ...
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Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Friendly Club and Other Portraits. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Francis Parsons, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have The Friendly Club and Other Portraits in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Friendly Club and Other Portraits: Look inside the book: Yet in their time this coterie of poets, who gathered in the little Connecticut town after the close of the war for independence, became famous not only in their own land but abroad, and the community where most of them lived and met at their 'friendly club'-was it at the Black Horse Tavern or the 'Bunch of Grapes'?-shone in reflected glory as the literary center of America. ...In general, however, the Hartford Wits fought for the established order against the forces of innovation and disintegration and thus when they sat down to unburden their minds of their visions of their country's future greatness, or of their impatience with demagoguery and political short-sightedness, it was natural that their sense of tradition and order should lead their thoughts to seek expression in the verse forms lifted into fame by the masters of an older and greater literature and accepted as the conventional vehicle27 of poetic expression.
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