| 1846 - 522 páginas
...worthy of perusal by all who take the slightest interest in American literature. The consideration of the epochs and events of American history as suited to the purposes of art in fiction is a most elaborate and well digested critical essay. " Americanism in Literature" is also written... | |
| William Gilmore Simms - 1845 - 448 páginas
...a solitary right of his neighbour. This is the principle. We do not tolerate any inter3 ARTICLE II. THE EPOCHS AND EVENTS OF AMERICAN HISTORY, AS SUITED TO THE PURPOSES OF ART IN FICTION.* IT was the reply of Sir Robert Walpole, — a shrewd observer of men, a profound politician, and no... | |
| 1845 - 448 páginas
...abode, Bear gently forth the melancholy strain, Sweet strain, sad strain, dear music sent from God. THE EPOCHS AND EVENTS OF AMERICAN HISTORY, AS SUITED TO THE PURPOSES OF ART. THE BAJU.Y SPANISH VOYAOBHS — HERSANDO El 6OTO AS A SUBJECT TOR BOMAHOX. FROM the first dawning of... | |
| William Peterfield Trent - 1892 - 398 páginas
...anything hitherto written on the same subject is fully equal." The most elaborate essay is styled, " The Epochs and Events of American History, as suited to the Purposes of Art in Fiction." This was the final form Simms gave to two lectures previously delivered before the Georgia Historical... | |
| American Historical Association - 1895 - 626 páginas
...1845. A lecture in a aeries delivered before the Historical Society of Georgia, entitled The Enochs and Events of American History, as suited to the Purposes of Art in Fiction. Printed in Views and Reviews* in American Literature, History, and Fiction. Firet series. Reprinted,... | |
| 1904 - 188 páginas
...Macm., 1894, 70:256-64; 321-30; 410-19. Same, Littell, 202 : 681 ; 203 : 28, 495. •Simms, W : Gilmore. Epochs and events of American history as suited to the purposes of art in fiction. In his Views and reviews, ser. i, p. 20-101. 238 p. D. NY, 1845. Wiley & Putnam, $1.00. 814.39 $14.... | |
| Annette Kolodny - 1975 - 204 páginas
...Eaves (Columbia, SC: University ofSouth Carolina Press, 1952-56). 4:379. 27. William Gilmore Simms, "The Epochs and Events of American History, as Suited to the Purposes of Art in Fiction," originally delivered as lectures to the Historical Society of the State of Georgia (1842), and later... | |
| John Caldwell Guilds - 1988 - 294 páginas
...work will be by page number within the text. 12 Letters, II, 55, 105n. 13 Letters, II, 170. 14 Simms, "The Epochs and Events of American History, as Suited to the Purposes of Art in Fiction," pp. 145-154. 15Simms, "The Epochs and Events of American History, as Suited to the Purposes of Art... | |
| Mary Ann Wimsatt - 1999 - 328 páginas
...Benedict Arnold in a drama begun in the and serialized in the 1860s.)15 14. William Gilmore Simms, "The Epochs and Events of American History, as Suited to the Purposes of Art in Fiction," in Views and Reviews, 1st ser., 34, 36, 76. The first series of Views and Reviews was published in... | |
| 1995 - 246 páginas
...most popular: new editions appeared regularly throughout the nineteenth century, the last in 1888. 48. "The Epochs and Events of American History, as Suited to the Purposes of Art in Fiction," Views and Reviews in American Literature History and Fiction, ed. C. Hugh Holman (1845; reprint, Cambridge,... | |
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