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  2. F. O. Matthiessen - Wikipedia

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    Matthiessen was an American studies scholar and literary critic at Harvard University, [6] and chaired its undergraduate program in history and literature. [7] He wrote and edited landmark works of scholarship on T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the James family (Alice James, Henry James, Henry James Sr., and William James), Sarah Orne Jewett, Sinclair Lewis, Herman Melville, Henry David ...

  3. American Renaissance (literature) - Wikipedia

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    Scholar F. O. Matthiessen originated the phrase "American Renaissance" in his 1941 book American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman.The thematic center of the American Renaissance was what Matthiessen called the "devotion" of all five of his writers to "the possibilities of democracy".

  4. Notebooks of Henry James - Wikipedia

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    The Notebooks weren't published until 1947, when they appeared in a heavily annotated edition compiled by F. O. Matthiessen and Kenneth Murdock. The editors pointed out notebook entries that eventually turned into finished works by James, and then went beyond that simple editorial function to discuss and evaluate the works themselves.

  5. John Marr and Other Sailors - Wikipedia

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    Matthiessen, F. O. (1941). American Renaissance; Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. London, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-972688-2. Melville, Herman (2009). Robert C. Ryan; Hershel Parker (eds.). Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville. Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press.

  6. The Piazza Tales - Wikipedia

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    Matthiessen, F.O. (1941). American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. London, Toronto, New York: Oxford University Press. Melville, Herman (1987). The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860. Edited by Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, G. Thomas Tanselle, and others. The Writings of Herman Melville ...

  7. Redburn - Wikipedia

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    The book is semi-autobiographical and recounts the adventures of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. Melville wrote Redburn in less than ten weeks. While one scholar describes it as "arguably his funniest work", [2] scholar F. O. Matthiessen calls it "the most moving of its author's books before ...

  8. American Airlines suspends flights to Haiti indefinitely - AOL

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    MIAMI – American Airlines is no longer resuming its daily service out of Miami into Port-au-Prince's Toussaint Louverture International Airport. Our news partners at The Miami Herald were the ...

  9. Uriel (poem) - Wikipedia

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    F. O. Matthiessen focused instead on the philosophical content of the poem, arguing that "the conflict between the angel-doctrine of 'line' and Uriel's doctrine of 'round' is identical to the antithesis of 'Understanding' and 'Reason' which, under different aspects, was the burden of most of Emerson's early essays" (74). The topic of lines and ...