Initial Studies in American Letters... - Couverture souple

Beers, Beers

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1314947540 ISBN 13 : 9781314947540

Editeur : HardPress Ltd, 2013

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It would be unfair to judge of the intellectual vigor of the English colonists in America by the books that they wrote ;those stern men with empires in their brains had more pressing work to do than the making of books. The first settlers, indeed, were brought face to face with strange and exciting conditions the sea, the wilderness, the I ndians, the flora and fauna of a new world, things which seem stimulating to the imagination, and incidents and experiences which might have lent themselves easily to poetry or romance. Of all these they wrote back to England reports which were faithful and sometimes vivid, but which, upon the whole, hardly rise into the region of literature. New England, said Hawthorne, was then in a state incomparably more picturesque than at present. But to a contemporary that old New England of the seventeenth century doubtless seemed anything but picturesque ;filled, on the contrary, with grim, hard, work-day realities. The planters both of Virginia and Massachusetts were decimated by sickness and starvation, constantly threatened by Indian wars, and troubled by quarrels among themselves and fears of disturbance fromE
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HardPress Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1314947540
• ISBN 13: 9781314947540
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 234
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