01193cam a22002051  450000100060000000300080000600500170001400800410003103500190007204000320009104100080012308200200013110000350015124500920018626000340027830000270031250400500033950505500038965000480093916962BD-RjUL20211209000054.0140215s1970    nyu      b    001 0 eng d  a(BD-RjUL)17018  aDLCcDLCdDLCdBD-RjULbeng  aeng00a810.9bSPO 19701 aSpiller, Robert Ernest,d1896-14aThe oblique light :bstudies in literary history and biography /cby Robert E. Spiller.  aNew York :bMacmillan,cc1970  aviii, 279 p. ;c22 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and Index0 aBenjamin Franklin: student of life.--Franklin on the art of being human.--Fenimore Cooper: the critical American in England.--Second thoughts on Cooper as a social critic.--A case for W. E. Channing.--Ralph Waldo Emerson: man thinking.--The mind and art of Nathaniel Hawthorne.--The private novel of Henry Adams.--Henry Adams: man of letters.--Sidney Lanier: ancestor of anti-realism.--Edmund Wilson: the dual role of criticism.--The English literary horizon: 1815-35.--The American in Europe: then and now.--Those early days: a personal memoir. 0aAmerican literaturexHistory and criticism.