Expression in America

American literature Amy Lowell artificer artist Babbitt beauty Brander Matthews Bret Harte CALIFORNIA LIBRARY century character civilization consciousness contemporary course creative criticism culture delineation doctrine Dreiser Edgar Masters Emerson England essay eternal Eugene O'Neill experience expression fact fiction Floyd Dell Goethe Hawthorne heart Hence Henry James Howells human imagination inner instinct intellectual later less letters literary live lyrical Mark Twain Mencken metaphysical mind modern mood moral nature ness never novel novelist once passion Paul Elmer period permanent philosophical poems poet poetic poetry polite profoundly prose Puritan reader reality revolt romance scene sense Sinclair Lewis soul speak speech spirit story substance Susan Glaspell symbol theater Theodore Dreiser things Thoreau thought tion tradition tragic true truth ultimate UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Upton Sinclair values verse virtue vision Whitman wholly Willa Cather words writers wrote