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... critical approaches to American literature , individual teachers like to emphasize widely different aspects of the subject , and provision has been made to this end . Whether it is wished to emphasize the reforming spirit of Puritanism ...
... critical approaches to American literature , individual teachers like to emphasize widely different aspects of the subject , and provision has been made to this end . Whether it is wished to emphasize the reforming spirit of Puritanism ...
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... critical essays have been collected in some six volumes . As a critic he was chiefly influenced by Sainte - Beuve , and in maturity he developed a method of subtle and sensitive impressionism resembling to some extent that of Walter ...
... critical essays have been collected in some six volumes . As a critic he was chiefly influenced by Sainte - Beuve , and in maturity he developed a method of subtle and sensitive impressionism resembling to some extent that of Walter ...
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... critical act , one should be able to prefer poem A to poem B , and to state defensible reasons for the preference . Winters ' own work is marked by many such decisions , some of them curious indeed ; the act of critical choice seemed ...
... critical act , one should be able to prefer poem A to poem B , and to state defensible reasons for the preference . Winters ' own work is marked by many such decisions , some of them curious indeed ; the act of critical choice seemed ...
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JONATHAN EDWARDS 17031758 | 16 |
Sarah Pierrepont | 24 |
JOHN WOOLMAN 17201772 | 31 |
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