A Smaller History of English And American Literature for the Use of Schools
A Smaller History of English And American Literature for the Use of Schools
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EDWARD EVERETT. American History and Historians. JARED SPARKS. DAVID RAMSAY. GEORGE BANCROFT. HILDRETH. ELIOT. LOSSING. WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT. IRVING. WHEATON. COOPER. PARKMAN.
535. LITERATURE is a positive element of civilized life; but in different countries and epochs it exists sometimes as a pas- sive taste or means of culture, and at others as a development of productive tendencies. The first is the usual form in colo- nial societies, where the habit of looking to the fatherland for intellec...tual nutriment as well as political authority is the nat- ural result even of patriotic feeling. In academic culture, habit- ual reading, moral and domestic tastes, and cast of mind, the Americans were identified with the mother country, and, in all essential particulars, would naturally follow the style thus inhe- rent in their natures and confirmed by habit and study. At first, therefore, the literary development of the United States was imitative; but with the progress of the country, and her in- creased leisure and means of education, the writings of the peo- ple became more and more characteristic; theological and polit- ical occasions gradually ceased to be the exclusive moulds of (311) 312 A SKETCH OF CHAP.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
EDWARD EVERETT. American History and Historians. JARED SPARKS. DAVID RAMSAY. GEORGE BANCROFT. HILDRETH. ELIOT. LOSSING. WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT. IRVING. WHEATON. COOPER. PARKMAN.
535. LITERATURE is a positive element of civilized life; but in different countries and epochs it exists sometimes as a pas- sive taste or means of culture, and at others as a development of productive tendencies. The first is the usual form in colo- nial societies, where the habit of looking to the fatherland for intellec...tual nutriment as well as political authority is the nat- ural result even of patriotic feeling. In academic culture, habit- ual reading, moral and domestic tastes, and cast of mind, the Americans were identified with the mother country, and, in all essential particulars, would naturally follow the style thus inhe- rent in their natures and confirmed by habit and study. At first, therefore, the literary development of the United States was imitative; but with the progress of the country, and her in- creased leisure and means of education, the writings of the peo- ple became more and more characteristic; theological and polit- ical occasions gradually ceased to be the exclusive moulds of (311) 312 A SKETCH OF CHAP.
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