American Writers: A Collection of Literary BiographiesLeonard Unger, A. Walton Litz, Molly Weigel, Lea Bechler, Jay Parini Scribner, 1974 - American literature The four volume set consists of ninety-seven of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. Some have been revised and updated. |
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Page 224
... wrote his greatest romance . As he worked on it , anxiety about money was still severe and grief at the death of his mother was intense , but he never again wrote so rapidly or so surely , or so much from the depths of his sensibility ...
... wrote his greatest romance . As he worked on it , anxiety about money was still severe and grief at the death of his mother was intense , but he never again wrote so rapidly or so surely , or so much from the depths of his sensibility ...
Page 277
... wrote their first novels on a bet or at the urging of friends , turning from active lives to the writer's study . Hawthorne , Emily Dickinson , and James on the other hand became engaged in the craft of literature at an early age , and ...
... wrote their first novels on a bet or at the urging of friends , turning from active lives to the writer's study . Hawthorne , Emily Dickinson , and James on the other hand became engaged in the craft of literature at an early age , and ...
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... wrote : " For we being absolute creatures of God are without any substance in ourselves , and hence are what we are . . . only by virtue of His infinite tenderness imparting , or , as Swedenborg phrases it , communicating , Him- self to ...
... wrote : " For we being absolute creatures of God are without any substance in ourselves , and hence are what we are . . . only by virtue of His infinite tenderness imparting , or , as Swedenborg phrases it , communicating , Him- self to ...
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