Makers of American Literature: A Class-Book on American Literature (Classic Reprint)

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NO attempt is made in the following chapters to assign the authors considered their relatively proper place in our literature. That would be a hazardous undertaking even for a thorough scholar and most competent critic, and the writer Of this book is fully aware that he does not possess the nec essary qualification for the successful performance Of so difficult and delicate a task.

Each essay is followed by a selection from the writings Of the author discussed, in order to illus trate his style.

Several of the papers comprising the following chapters have been previously printed in magazines. These papers, I need hardly state, have been revised and adapted to the plan Of the present volume. For permission to use these I wish here to express my thanks to the editors Of the following journals: the Forum, the South Atlantic Quarterly, the Lutheran Quarterly, the Presbyterian Review, the Sewanee Review, and the Methodist Review.

The selections from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, H. W. Longfellow, O. W. Holmes.

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