Author: William Eleazar BartonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Truth about the Trouble at Roundstone
Author: William Eleazar BartonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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.
The Book Buyer
Author: Who's who in America
Author: John William LeonardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 3490
Book Description
Vols. 28-30 accompanied by separately published parts with title: Indices and necrology.
Our Church Life
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Kentucky in American Letters: 1784-1912
Author: John Wilson TownsendPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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The Congregationalist and Christian World
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
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Panoplist, and Missionary Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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The Missionary Herald
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Vols. for 1828-1934 contain the Proceedings at large of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English
Author: Michael B. MontgomeryPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469662558
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 3218
Book Description
The Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English is a revised and expanded edition of the Weatherford Award–winning Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English, published in 2005 and known in Appalachian studies circles as the most comprehensive reference work dedicated to Appalachian vernacular and linguistic practice. Editors Michael B. Montgomery and Jennifer K. N. Heinmiller document the variety of English used in parts of eight states, ranging from West Virginia to Georgia—an expansion of the first edition's geography, which was limited primarily to North Carolina and Tennessee—and include over 10,000 entries drawn from over 2,200 sources. The entries include approximately 35,000 citations to provide the reader with historical context, meaning, and usage. Around 1,600 of those examples are from letters written by Civil War soldiers and their family members, and another 4,000 are taken from regional oral history recordings. Decades in the making, the Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English surpasses the original by thousands of entries. There is no work of this magnitude available that so completely illustrates the rich language of the Smoky Mountains and Southern Appalachia.