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Soundings : some early American writers

Title: Soundings : some early American writers / by Lewis Leary.
Author: Leary, Lewis, 1906-1990.
Publication: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1975]

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Description

x, 332 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Benjamin Franklin, Nathaniel Tucker, Samuel Low, Royall Tyler, Charles Crawford, Joseph Brown Ladd, Philip Freneau, Hugh Henry, John Blair Linn, William Dunlap, Thomas Branagan, Joseph Dennie, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 330-332.

Contents

Benjamin Franklin and the requirements of literature -- Nathaniel Tucker: expatriate patriot -- Samuel Low: New York's first poet -- Royall Tyler: first gentleman of the American theater -- Charles Crawford: a forgotten poet of early Philadelphia -- Joseph Brown Ladd of Charleston -- Philip Freneau: a reassessment -- Hugh Henry Brackenridge's Modern chivalry -- John Blair Linn, 1777-1805 -- The education of William Dunlap -- Thomas Branagan: Republican rhetoric and romanticism in America -- The literary opinions of Joseph Dennie -- James Fenimore Cooper's lover's quarrel with America -- Washington Irving: an end and a new beginning.

ISBN

082030350X
9780820303505

LCCN

73090847

OCLC

ocm01659338
1659338
SCSB-111981

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library