The Oxford Book of American Essays, edited

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Winthrop, Theodore, 1828-1861

Title

The Oxford Book of American Essays

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Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

American essays

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Text

eBook-No.

40196

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40196

Release Date

July 10, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE OXFORD BOOK OF AMERICAN ESSAYS
2. 2.INTRODUCTION
3. 3.THE EPHEMERA: AN EMBLEM OF HUMAN LIFE TO MADAME BRILLON, OF PASSY B ENJAMIN F RANKLIN
4. 4.THE WHISTLE TO MADAME BRILLON B ENJAMIN F RANKLIN
5. 5.DIALOGUE BETWEEN FRANKLIN AND THE GOUT
6. 6.CONSOLATION FOR THE OLD BACHELOR F RANCIS H OPKINSON
7. 7.JOHN BULL W ASHINGTON I RVING
8. 8.THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE A COLLOQUY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY W ASHINGTON I RVING
9. 9.KEAN’S ACTING R ICHARD H ENRY D ANA
10. 10.GIFTS R ALPH W ALDO E MERSON
11. 11.USES OF GREAT MEN R ALPH W ALDO E MERSON
12. 12.BUDS AND BIRD-VOICES N ATHANIEL H AWTHORNE
13. 13.THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION E DGAR A LLAN P OE
14. 14.BREAD AND THE NEWSPAPER O LIVER W ENDELL H OLMES
15. 15.WALKING H ENRY D AVID T HOREAU
16. 16.ON A CERTAIN CONDESCENSION IN FOREIGNERS [5] J AMES R USSELL L OWELL
17. 17.PREFACE TO "LEAVES OF GRASS" 1855 W ALT W HITMAN
18. 18.AMERICANISM IN LITERATURE T HOMAS W ENTWORTH H IGGINSON
19. 19.THACKERAY IN AMERICA G EORGE W ILLIAM C URTIS
20. 20.OUR MARCH TO WASHINGTON T HEODORE W INTHROP THROUGH THE CITY — PHILADELPHIA — THE "BOSTON" — ANNAPOLIS — WHAT THE MASSACHUSETTS EIGHTH HAD BEEN DOING — OUR MORNING MARCH — ON GUARD WITH HOWITZER NO. TWO — THE BRIDGE — THE NIGHT-MARCH — MORNING — WASHINGTON
21. 21.CALVIN A STUDY OF CHARACTER C HARLES D UDLEY W ARNER
22. 22.FIVE AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO CIVILIZATION C HARLES W ILLIAM E LIOT
23. 23.I TALK OF DREAMS W. D. Howells — I — II — III — IV — V — VI — VII
24. 24.AN IDYL OF THE HONEY-BEE J OHN B URROUGHS
25. 25.CUT-OFF COPPLES’S C LARENCE K ING
26. 26.THE THÉÂTRE FRANÇAIS H ENRY J AMES
27. 27.THEOCRITUS ON CAPE COD H AMILTON W RIGHT M ABIE
28. 28.COLONIALISM IN THE UNITED STATES [9] H ENRY C ABOT L ODGE
29. 29.NEW YORK AFTER PARIS W. C. Brownell
30. 30.THE TYRANNY OF THINGS E DWARD S ANDFORD M ARTIN
31. 31.FREE TRADE VS. PROTECTION IN LITERATURE S AMUEL M C C HORD C ROTHERS
32. 32.DANTE AND THE BOWERY T HEODORE R OOSEVELT
33. 33.THE REVOLT OF THE UNFIT N ICHOLAS M URRAY B UTLER
34. 34.ON TRANSLATING THE ODES OF HORACE W. P. T RENT — FOOTNOTES:

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