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Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Historical Guides to American Authors
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Language: en
Pages: 289
Pages: 289
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-01-13 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Few authors are so well suited to historical study as Whitman, who is widely considered America's greatest poet. This Guide combines contemporary cultural studi
Language: en
Pages: 252
Pages: 252
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Author of the biography of Whitman and several other books about the poet, general coeditor of The Collected Writings, and for 25 years the leading scholar of L
Language: en
Pages: 327
Pages: 327
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-10-03 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Mark Twain (born Samuel Clemens), a former printer's apprentice, journalist, steamboat pilot, and miner, remains to this day one of the most enduring and belove
Language: en
Pages: 294
Pages: 294
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-11-02 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
As an essayist, philosopher, ex-pencil manufacturer, notorious hermit, tax protester, and all-around original thinker, Thoreau led so singular a life that he is