New England writers and writing /
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| Language: | English |
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Hanover, NH :
University Press of New England,
[1996]
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| Series: | Library of New England.
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Table of Contents:
- The Nineteenth century : Hawthorne : Hawthorne in solitude ; The Hawthornes in paradise ; The five acts of the Scarlet letter ; A case for Blithedale ; Mystery at the Old Manse
- The external Emerson
- Melville among his champions
- Whitman : The poet and the mask (excerpts) ; The buried masterpiece (excerpts)
- The real Horatio Alger story
- The two Henry Jameses
- The Twentieth century : Robert Frost: a dissenting opinion
- Edwin Arlington Robinson : defeat and triumph
- Eugene O'Neill in Connecticut
- Hart Crane in search of a home : a memoir
- Van Wyck Brook's "Usable past"
- Two views of George Santayana : At Harvard ; In society
- E.E. Cummings : One man alone ; A farewell to the last Harvard "Dandy"
- S. Foster Damon : the New England voice
- Conrad Aiken : From Savannah to Emerson
- J.P. Marquand : anthropologist of the Boston story
- Thornton Wilder : time abolished
- John Cheever : the novelist's life as a dream
- New England Life : Essays and Reflections : Connecticut Valley
- Town report
- Along the Housatonic
- Election night in Sherman
- Is there still hope for farming in New England?
- A letter on growing melons
- A handful of poems : Boy in sunlight ; The living water ; Natural history ; From where the forest stood ; The urn ; The long voyage
- A conservation between father and son on New England life (with Robert Cowley).