Author: John Wilson TownsendPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Kentucky in American Letters: 1784-1912
Author: John Wilson TownsendPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912 (Complete)
Author: John Wilson TownsendPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465530959
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
Mr. Townsend's fellow countrymen must feel themselves to be put under a beautiful obligation to him by his work entitled Kentucky in American Letters. He has thus fenced off for the lovers of New World literature a well watered bluegrass pasture of prose and verse, which they may enter and range through according to their appetites for its peculiar green provender and their thirst for the limestone spring. This strip of pasture is a hundred years long; its breadth may not be politely questioned! For the backward-looking and for the forward-looking students of American literature, not its merely browsing readers, he has wrought a service of larger and more lasting account. Whether his patiently done and richly crowned work be the first of its class and kind, there is slight need to consider here: fitly enough it might be a pioneer, a path-blazer, as coming from the land of pioneers, path-blazers. But whether or not other works of like character be already in the field of national observation, it is inevitable that many others soon will be. There must in time and in the natural course of events come about a complete marshalling of the American commonwealths, especially of the older American commonwealths, attended each by its women and men of letters; with the final result that the entire pageant of our literary creativeness as a people will thus be exhibited and reviewed within those barriers and divisions, which from the beginning have constituted the peculiar genius of our civilization. When this has been done, when the States have severally made their profoundly significant showing, when the evidence up to some century mark or half-century mark is all presented, then for the first time we, as a reading and thoughtful self-studying people, may for the first time be advanced to the position of beginning to understand what as a whole our cis-Atlantic branch of English literature really is. Thus Mr. Townsend's work and the work of his fellow-craftsmen are all stations on the long road but the right road. They are aids to the marshalling of the American commonwealths at a great meeting-point of the higher influences of our nation. Now, already American literature has long been a subject in regard to which a library of books has been written. The authors of by far the most of these books are themselves Americans, and they have thus looked at our literature and at our civilization from within; the authors of the rest are foreigners who have investigated and philosophized from the outside. Altogether, native and foreign, they have approached their theme from divergent directions, with diverse aims, and under the influence of deep differences in their critical methods and in their own natures. But so far as the writer of these words is aware, no one of them either native or foreign has ever set about the study of American literature, enlightened with the only solvent principle that can ever furnish its solution.
Kentucky in American Letters
Author: Dorothy Edwards TownsendPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912
Author: John Wilson TownsendKentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912
Author: John Wilson TownsendPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Kentucky in American Letters, V. 1 of 2
Author: John Wilson TownsendKentucky in American Letters 1784-1912, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
Author: John Wilson TownsendPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267832842
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Excerpt from Kentucky in American Letters 1784-1912, Vol. 1 of 2 For the first time in this way he may come to see a great light; and with that light shining about him he may be prepared to write the first history of American litera ture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Kentucky in American Letters, V. 2 of 2
Author: John Wilson TownsendKentucky in American Letters, V. 2 of 2 1784-1912
Author: Townsend John WilsonPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318030385
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Kentucky in American Letters, V. 1 of 2 1784-1912
Author: Townsend John WilsonPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318030378
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.