...these books were American. Like other Yankees, Emerson was stung by the British reviewer's challenge: "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?"" But he himself didn't either, to any great extent. Young Emerson was highly susceptible to American...

...as Whitman tagged it, "a strange, unloosen'd, wondrous time." Cultural Context "In the four corners of the globe, who reads an American book? Or goes...play? or looks at an American picture or statue?" So wrote the sharptongued British essayist Sydney Smith in the respected Edinburgh Review in 1820,...

...true, as English critic Sydney Smith snidely quipped in 1818 in the pages of the Edinburgh Review, that "in the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" But the study of Indian artifacts and monuments in the antebellum period commanded serious attention...

...the Arts, for Literature, or even for statesman-like studies of Politics or Political Economy. . . In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...their chemists discovered? or what old ones have they analyzed? What new constellations have been discovered by the telescopes of Americans? — what have...

...Review in 1820. Following are some of Mr. Smith's observations: goes to an American play? or looks upon an American picture or statue? What does the world...their chemists discovered, or what old ones have they analyzed? What new constellations have been discovered by the telescopes of Americans? What have they...

...Sydney Smith in an Edinburgh Review essay that took up a recent book on culture in the United States: "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...play? or looks at an American picture or statue?" This question was the most reverberative shot in a war of words that began to be waged on both sides...

...Sydney Smith had taunted nut ig before in the Edinburgh Review, "In the tour corners of the globe, u ho reads an American book- or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue?" Galling as it was to the intelligentsia of the \<>uiig nation, America had slight standing in the international...

...the Second World War, the United States was scarcely on the map of contributions to world psychiatry. "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" sneered English critic Sydney Smith in the nineteenth century, and the answer was as valid for American...

...contemplation and culture was neglected. In Great Britain, the haughty Edinburgh Review snidely asked in 1820, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" But that would soon change. As emblematic of this age as reform or social flux was an intellectual...

...plagued Americans since the early years of the republic. Sydney Smith's rhetorical question from 1820: "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" was only the most famous expression of the widely held view that American literature was but a poor...