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He wrote to a friend during this period: "Our intellectual ore is apparently of no value except as it is capable of being transmuted into gold, and learning and eloquence are desirable only as the means of more expeditiously filling our ...
He wrote to a friend during this period: "Our intellectual ore is apparently of no value except as it is capable of being transmuted into gold, and learning and eloquence are desirable only as the means of more expeditiously filling our ...
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Occasionally he would write poetry; and it is a testimony to his intellectual vigor that one of his last poems, "The Flood of Years," an imaginative treatment of life and death written in 1876, remains memorable.
Occasionally he would write poetry; and it is a testimony to his intellectual vigor that one of his last poems, "The Flood of Years," an imaginative treatment of life and death written in 1876, remains memorable.
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Bryant, of course, was not alone in his intellectual position, nor was his mode of expression unique. Other writers and painters of his generation — James Fenimore Cooper and Thomas Cole are but two important examples — shared his ...
Bryant, of course, was not alone in his intellectual position, nor was his mode of expression unique. Other writers and painters of his generation — James Fenimore Cooper and Thomas Cole are but two important examples — shared his ...
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis supplement, the latest addition to the well-known "American Writers'' series, includes 29 authors. All except Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century orator and writer, are 20th-century poets ... Read full review
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| Title | American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier |
| Editor | Leonard Unger |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's sons, 1979 |
| ISBN | 0684157977, 9780684157979 |
| Length | 373 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General |
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