Bliss Perry
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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 belief in institutions. American Idealism (1913) examines how the nation's ideals are reflected in its literature. This double volume of pioneering criticism is full of humor, insight, and examples.
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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 Cooper, Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and Henry James.
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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 many letters between the poet and his friends and colleagues. Perry details the life and work of this literary giant in prose that is as interesting and engaging today as when it was written.
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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 presents the best from these journals, carefully selecting passages to create both a revealing portrait of this formidable thinker and a social and historical record of the era in which he lived.