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In 1915 Van Wyck Brooks published " America's Coming of Age . " In 1930 the Nobel Prize was awarded to an American writer for the first time . During the decade and a half between these two events American literature actually came of ...
In 1915 Van Wyck Brooks published " America's Coming of Age . " In 1930 the Nobel Prize was awarded to an American writer for the first time . During the decade and a half between these two events American literature actually came of ...
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The cold contempt for America his utterances on that issue contained will take long to repair . ... The type of American who , wearied and disgusted with over - mechanized New York life and equally repelled by money making , seeks an ...
The cold contempt for America his utterances on that issue contained will take long to repair . ... The type of American who , wearied and disgusted with over - mechanized New York life and equally repelled by money making , seeks an ...
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American history than they do . Mr. Bryant uses all his powers of persuasion and all his delicacy of biographical dis- crimination to make the British public interested in the American story . It is un- gracious in criticizing such a ...
American history than they do . Mr. Bryant uses all his powers of persuasion and all his delicacy of biographical dis- crimination to make the British public interested in the American story . It is un- gracious in criticizing such a ...
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