Spiller, Robert Ernest,

The cycle of American literature: an essay in historical criticism / Robert Ernest Spiller. - Fifth printing - xi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

The first frontier: Architects of culture: Edwards, Franklin, Jefferson -- The man of letters: Irving, Bryant, Cooper -- The affirmation: Emerson, Thoreau -- The artist in America: Poe, Hawthorne -- Romantic crisis: Melville, Whitman -- End of an era -- [2.] The second frontier: Literary rediscovery: Howells, Mark Twain -- Art and the inner life: Dickinson, James -- A problem in dynamics: Adams, Norris, Robinson -- Second renaissance: Dreiser, Frost -- Full circle: O'Neill, Hemingway -- The uses of memory: Eliot, Faulkner

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Cycles (Literature)
Criticism, interpretation, etc
American literature--History and criticism
American literature