TY - BOOK AU - Spiller,Robert Ernest TI - The cycle of American literature: an essay in historical criticism PY - 1956/// CY - New York PB - Mentor Books, KW - Cycles (Literature) KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - American literature KW - History and criticism N1 - 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 ER -