مؤلف: Bliss Perry

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“Mr. Bliss Perry has performed his editorial task with great skill and discrimination, and it is now possible to read in a convenient form the intellectual log book of the Concord philosopher, …

The method of studying poetry which I have followed in this book was sketched some years ago in my chapter on ‘Poetry’ in Counsel Upon the Reading of Books. My confidence that the genetic method is t …

This 1900 collection of papers contains essays written by historians H. Morse Stephens, Agnes Repplier, Arthur T. Hadley, Brander Matthews, Bliss Perry, and Hamilton Wright Mabie. Written for the Ame …

For more than fifty-five years Ralph Waldo Emerson kept a journal, recording his thoughts on books, authors, and religion, among other subjects. In this engrossing volume editor Perry Bliss pres …

A part of the American Men of Letters Series, this 1906 volume was the first biography of Whitman published after his death in 1892. Perry draws on a rich collection of Whitman material including man …

In The American Mind (1912), the author defines and interprets American literature as it reflects the nation’s character—including its people’s confidence, recklessness, and oratory as well as their …

This 1918 critical history identifies writers whose works capture the spirit of a pioneer nation, and explores how they define the new state. Perry’s subjects include Walt Whitman, James Fennimore Co …

An extraordinary piece of American history. ‘We are but strangers in an inn, but passengers in a ship, ‘ said Roger Williams. This sense of the transiency of human effort, the perishable nature of hu …

"The American Spirit in Literature" written by Bliss Perry is a captivating exploration of the evolution of American literature and its profound connection to the nation’s identity. Perry’s …