Author: Van Wyck BrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Ordeal of Mark Twain
Author: Van Wyck BrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Port of New York
Author: Paul RosenfeldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Van Wyck Brooks, 1886-1963
Author: American Academy of Arts and LettersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
America's Coming-of-age
Author: Van Wyck BrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Malady of the Ideal
Author: Van Wyck BrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Writer in America
Author: Van Wyck BrooksPublisher: New York, E. P. Dutton
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Cross of Snow
Author: Nicholas A. BasbanesPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1101875143
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
A major literary biography of America's best-loved nineteenth-century poet, the first in more than fifty years, and a much-needed reassessment for the twenty-first century of a writer whose stature and celebrity were unparalleled in his time, whose work helped to explain America's new world not only to Americans but to Europe and beyond. From the author of On Paper ("Buoyant"--The New Yorker; "Essential"--Publishers Weekly), Patience and Fortitude ("A wonderful hymn"--Simon Winchester), and A Gentle Madness ("A jewel"--David McCullough). In Cross of Snow, the result of more than twelve years of research, including access to never-before-examined letters, diaries, journals, notes, Nicholas Basbanes reveals the life, the times, the work--the soul--of the man who shaped the literature of a new nation with his countless poems, sonnets, stories, essays, translations, and whose renown was so wide-reaching that his deep friendships included Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Julia Ward Howe, and Oscar Wilde. Basbanes writes of the shaping of Longfellow's character, his huge body of work that included translations of numerous foreign works, among them, the first rendering into a complete edition by an American of Dante's Divine Comedy. We see Longfellow's two marriages, both happy and contented, each cut short by tragedy. His first to Mary Storer Potter that ended in the aftermath of a miscarriage, leaving Longfellow devastated. His second marriage to the brilliant Boston socialite--Fanny Appleton, after a three-year pursuit by Longfellow (his "fiery crucible," he called it), and his emergence as a literary force and a man of letters. A portrait of a bold artist, experimenter of poetic form and an innovative translator--the human being that he was, the times in which he lived, the people whose lives he touched, his monumental work and its place in his America and ours.
Makers and finders : a history of the writer in America 1800 - 1915. 3. The times of Melville and Whitman
Author: Van Wyck BrooksCraft in America
Author: Jo LauriaPublisher: Potter Style
ISBN: 0307346471
Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Illustrated with 200 stunning photographs and encompassing objects from furniture and ceramics to jewelry and metal, this definitive work from Jo Lauria and Steve Fenton showcases some of the greatest pieces of American crafts of the last two centuries. Potter Craft
The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870
Author: William CharvatPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231070775
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This study focuses on the complex relations between author, publisher and contemporary reading public in 19th-century America; in particular, the emergence of Irving and Cooper as America's first successful literary entrepreneurs, how Poe's and Melville's successes and failures affected their writing, the popularization of poetry in the 1830s and 1840s, the role of the literary magazine in the 1840s and 1850s, and the beginnings of book promotion. It pays particular attention to the way social and economic forces helped to shape literary works.