The Playhouse and the Play: And Other Addresses Concerning the Theatre and Democracy in America |
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... expression of men like Hawthorne , Emerson , Whittier , Thoreau , Poe , Whitman , Lowell , Longfellow , Holmes , and the seed of that self - expression has borne hereditary fruit in the works of our American literary artists during the ...
... expression of men like Hawthorne , Emerson , Whittier , Thoreau , Poe , Whitman , Lowell , Longfellow , Holmes , and the seed of that self - expression has borne hereditary fruit in the works of our American literary artists during the ...
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... expression , which at the beginning of our New England literary period bodied itself forth in the works of Hawthorne , Emerson , and " the Transcendentalists , " had its origin in the influence of independent Con- tinental thinkers , so ...
... expression , which at the beginning of our New England literary period bodied itself forth in the works of Hawthorne , Emerson , and " the Transcendentalists , " had its origin in the influence of independent Con- tinental thinkers , so ...
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... expression . For such a theatre there is precedent - the much cited Théâtre Français , for example ; yet what need is there of precedent when the issue is plain ? Either there can be no adequate self- expression in our drama , or there ...
... expression . For such a theatre there is precedent - the much cited Théâtre Français , for example ; yet what need is there of precedent when the issue is plain ? Either there can be no adequate self- expression in our drama , or there ...
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