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Author Sanford, John, 1904-2003

Title View from this wilderness : American literature as history / John Sanford ; foreword by Paul Mariani.

Publication Info. Santa Barbara : Capra Press, [1977]
©1977

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  810.8 SA57    Check Shelf
Description 183 pages ; 24 cm.
Series [His The top of Pisgah ; v. 2]
Sanford, John, 1904-2003. Top of Pisgah ; v. 2.
Contents First words in the new world / Christopher Columbus -- Quetzalcoatl / William Hickling Prescott -- Going home to Eden / Thomas Harriot -- The simple cobler of Aggawam / Nathaniel Ward -- Annotations on Winthrop's Journal / John Winthrop -- An infamouse and scurillous booke / Thomas Morton -- The medicine-man / John Eliot -- A brief history of the Pequot War / Capt. John Mason -- Of sorcery and smoke / Père Paul Le Jeune -- As once to Israel / Increase Mather -- Ad libs by a fictitious character / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- How far from then forethought of / Edward Taylor -- Mark them which cause divisions / Roger Williams -- Heaven was his country / Jonathan Edwards -- The world of movable type / John Peter Zenger -- The yell of rebellion / Sam Adams -- Near the grave of Paul Revere / James Otis -- The Virginia Plan / James Madison -- The bones of a pamphleteer / Tom Paine -- Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft / Thomas Jefferson -- A case that was never tried / John Marshall -- Letters from an American farmer / J.H. St. John de Crèvecoeur -- Ah sinful nation / Meriwether Lewis -- Charlotte Temple, a tale of truth / Susanna Rowson -- Cock-fight at Natchez / Col. Davy Crockett -- Legend with added material / Paul Bunyan -- In the Kaatskills / Washington Irving -- Does thy blue eye? / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The Jewish Cemetery at Newport / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- He called his rifle Satan / Francis Parkman -- In bronze above a doorway / Edgar Allan Poe -- A small fire / John Woolman -- Ah! Whither wilt thou go / Phillis Wheatley -- A visitor from the Bachelor's Delight / Herman Melville -- Give a dog a bad name / Mark Twain -- The Lord himself wrote it / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The language of the law / Roger Taney -- A few appropriate remarks / Abraham Lincoln -- A call of nature / Henry David Thoreau -- No marble column / Henry Timrod -- The lost cause / Albion Winegar Tourgée -- Brer nigger / Joel Chandler Harris -- Have you any wool? / Hinton Rowan Helper -- Revenge of the nerves / Emily Dickinson -- Life and death in the iron mills / Rebecca Harding Davis -- Henry James and lady / Constance Fenimore Woolson -- An epigraph for a short story / Helen Hunt Jackson -- Navigator of the windward passage / Horatio Alger, Jr. -- The red letter A / William Dean Howells -- A garland for the unrenowned / Philander Deming -- The elegant Capt. Farnham / John Hay -- A mouthful of blood / Sidney Lanier -- A hell on wheels / Walt Whitman -- An occurrence at the Styx River ferry / Ambrose Bierce -- A conversazione at Henry's / Henry James -- Persons that pass / Emma Lazarus -- About John D. (Baptist) / Henry Demarest Lloyd -- I am for men / Henry George -- The state of Maine / Sarah Orne Jewett -- On raising the coast of Japan / Lafcadio Hearn -- Faith in things unseen / Mary Baker Eddy -- The education of Pteraspis / Henry Adams -- A walk to the Gulf / Kate Chopin -- The idols of Texas / William Cowper Brann -- What's that nigger doing on the stage? / Booker T. Washington -- Summer White House, 1916 : two studies / Woodrow Wilson -- The naturalist / Theodore Roosevelt -- The flag follows trade / Alfred Thayer Mahan -- Evil has no first name, good has no last / Owen Wister -- A flat on 105th Street / Hamlin Garland -- His name was heart's pain / Stephen Crane -- The future is the past / Frederick Jackson Turner -- Pool-shooter in a billiard room / O. Henry -- One whose father rhapsodized / Arthur Brisbane -- The promise of American life / Herbert Croly -- The great American fortunes / Gustavus Myers -- Hear, O Israel! / Benjamin N. Cardozo -- Far above our poor power / Frank Norris -- A sword to fight with / Vernon Louis Parrington -- The locomotive of history / Jack London -- Loose fish from Indiana / Theodore Dreiser -- The past in the present / Robert Frost -- All stiff and yet all trembling / Gertrude Stein -- The train that went nowhere / Sherwood Anderson -- On the enchanted bluff / Willa Cather -- Socialism / Upton Sinclair -- All the coasts of Palestine / Carl Sandburg -- In my room / Wallace Stevens -- On rereading In the American grain / William Carlos Williams / The man who wrote blank prose / Sinclair Lewis -- In short the usual subjects / Ezra Pound -- What Sarah E. Spooldripper knew / Ring Lardner -- Encounter on 8th ST./ Randolph Bourne -- The muckraker who looked up / Lincoln Steffens -- A land to love / John Reed -- Una / Robinson Jeffers -- The accuracy of the vernacular! / Marianne Moore -- Last words for scorning men / Bartolomeo Vanzetti -- Don't cry, Dante / Nicola Sacco -- After the crucifixion / Heywood Broun -- Dead letter from a dead lover / Edna St. V. Millay -- Superman with qualms / Eugene O'Neill -- The fools forgather at Vera Cruz / Katherine Anne Porter -- Pilar, out of Key West / Archibald MacLeish -- Lumberman of the distinct / e.e. cummings -- I am not a negro / Jean Toomer -- Momus from old Nassau / Edmund Wilson -- Seven bucks found in a toilet / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The verdict / T.S. Eliot -- Workingmen and people like that / John Dos Passos -- Listen to the ghosts / William Faulkner -- Voyages, VII / Hart Crane -- A feast not made for laughter / Thomas Wolfe -- The blood-letter / Ernest Hemingway -- Miss Lonelyhearts in the Adirondacks / Nathanael West -- High school on 59th ST. / Countee Cullen -- The East of Eden letters / John Steinbeck -- Maxim has broken / Lionel Trilling -- God's angry man / Leonard Ehrlich -- The end of Lantenengo ST. / John O'Hara -- Creche 4596, Pere Lachaise / Richard Wright -- Death in a hack / James Agee -- At the grave of Malcolm Lowry / Conrad Aiken -- The Mississippi : at the head of navigation / John Berryman.
Subject United States -- History -- Literary collections.
American literature -- History and criticism.
Other Form: Online version: Sanford, John B., 1904- View from this wilderness. Santa Barbara : Capra Press, c1977 (OCoLC)647023935
ISBN 0884961125: $10.00
9780884961123
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