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Studies in classic American literature

Title
Studies in classic American literature / D.H. Lawrence.
Publication
New York : The Viking Press, [1961]
Copyright Notice Date
©1961
Physical Description
viii, 177 pages ; 20 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Zab H514 Zz961L: "Sixth printing December 1968". Paperbound. Ownership inscription, manuscript markings and annotations in pen of William Heyen. From the library of William Heyen. Accompanied by: lined sheet of paper with manuscript notes (1 leaf) ; scrap paper with manuscript notes (3 leaves).
Summary
In this work, "D.H. Lawrence set down his interpretation of what were for him the significant books ... His opinions on these and other works are often startling, sometimes extreme, never dull; they reflect the same moral passion and visionary grasp of essentials found in his novels. Since 1923 ... the 'thin little volumes' of Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, and Whitman, which D.H. Lawrence in effect rediscovered, have come into their own. A new generation of critics echoes Lawrence's judgments of these works, and the book he wrote about them ... has become itself a classic."
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Series
Compass books ; C147.
Compass books ; C147
Contents
Foreword.
The spirit of place.
Benjamin Franklin.
Hector St. John de Crèvecœur.
Fenimore Cooper's white novels.
Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking novels.
Edgar Allan Poe.
Nathaniel Hawthorne and "The scarlet letter."
Hawthorne's Blithedale romance."
Dana's "Two years before the mast."
Herman Melville's "Typee" and "Omoo".
Herman Melville's "Moby Dick".
Whitman
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Annotations - 20th century.
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