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Cuba's patriot and most famous writer, Jose Marti, lived in the United States for 15 years and wrote extensively about 19th-century American writers. This meticulous guide to Marti's multiple connections with U.S. literature provides for the first time in English a comprehensive analysis of his critiques of 40 American authors and his translations of American prose and poetry. Fountain presents an overview of his writing about American authors - from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry James to John Burroughs - and documents in Marti's writing previously unidentified translations from American authors. Separate chapters cover Emerson, Whitman, and Longfellow; other authors are grouped under Romanticism and Realism. Drawing on the 28 volumes of Marti's Complete Works, Fountain offers an extensive discussion of the Cuban writer's aesthetic precepts and preferences and demonstrates that his fascination with American authors is central to understanding his views of U.S. culture. The book includes a sketch of Marti's life, a description of his years in the United States, and his observations about life in North America during the 1880s and 1890s. It also describes how he brought U.S. writers to the attention of a Spanish-speaking public, mainly through his Latin American newspaper articles. With celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Marti's birth taking place throughout the year 2003, this book presents a timely source of new information about Marti's rich engagement with American literature. Marti scholars and Latin Americanists, as well as those interested in 19th-century American literature, will welcome this important study of a major cultural figure of the Americas.
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Self-described as 'a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot', Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered the follies of society. Heedless of his friends' advice to live in a more orthodox manner, he determinedly pursued his own inner bent - that of a poet-philosopher - in prose and verse, in his masterpiece "Walden", from which this work is taken. Edited by noted Thoreau scholar Jeffrey S. Cramer, this edition is the new standard for those interested in discovering the great thinker's influential ideas about everything from environmentalism to limited government.
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Providing authoritative texts, introductions and informative notes for students, the 4th edition of this anthology includes many more complete works such as "Billy Budd", "Ethan Frome" and "Daisy Miller", as well as a varied selection of drama.
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• v. 1. The colonial period to 1700, the colonial period, 1700-1800, early nineteenth century, 1800-1865
• v. 2. Late nineteenth century, 1865-1910, modern period, 1910-1945, contemporary period, 1945 to present.

The aim of this shorter edition is to provide teachers and students of American literature with all the material they require in a single volume. The anthology makes available to readers the rich diversity of American literature and has been revised to include more work by such authors as Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Thoreau. 15 new poets are represented, including Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov and Robert Creeley, and poets from the American West such as Richard Hugo. There is also additional material by women writers and six Afro-American authors.
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The aim of this shorter edition is to provide teachers and students of American literature with all the material they require in a single volume. The anthology makes available to readers the rich diversity of American literature and has been revised to include more work by such authors as Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Thoreau. 15 new poets are represented, including Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov and Robert Creeley, and poets from the American West such as Richard Hugo. There is also additional material by women writers and six Afro-American authors.
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• Nature
• Addresses
• Lectures
• Essays, first and second series
• Representative men
• English traits
• The conduct of life.

• The autocrat of the breakfast table - Chesuncook - My double and how he undid me - Bardic symbols - Paul revere's ride - Battle hymn of the republic - Barbara Frietchie - Prospice- The place of abraham lincoln in history - Reconstruction - Mr. hardhack on the derivation of man from the monkey - Hawthorne in the boston custom house - The true story of lady byron's life - The english governess at the siamese court - Our whispering gallery - How santa claus came to simpson's bar - Marjorie daw - A rebel's recollections - Old times on the mississippi - An ode for the fourth of july - The american congress after its first century - A fight with a trout - Buying a horse - The examination system in education - Some personal recollections of carlyle - Tom's husband - An after breakfast talk - Wolfe on the plains of abraham - A story of assisted fate - Salem cupboards - Low tide on grand pre - Economy in college work - The new talking machines - The united states looking outward - The next stage in development of public parks - Agrippina - Of a dancing girl - The city on the housetops - Mars - Winter - Municipal administration - The end of hte war, and after - The battle with the slum - Tuppenny travels in london - Hunting big redwoods - Li wan, the fair - Lawn tennis - Remarks at the peace banquet - Shall the university become a business corporation - Man and the actor - The immiagrant woman - A record breaking balloon voyage - The meaning of the election - The change in the feminine ideal - Two looks - The summit of the years - To the watcher - Newspaper morals - A group of poems - War and the sexes - Individual liberty and public control - Ordinary seamen, U.S.N. - Squadrons of the air - Fiddlers' luck - The mystic's experience of god - Jazz, a musical discussion - The road away from revolution - You get the pig - Sing; a song of sixpence - Our dissolving ethics - Mercury - Universities and their function - Emily Dickinson - Atmosphere versus art - The new pilgrim's progress - The world's economic outlook - Confessions of a novelist - Nursery crimes - Off stage and on - Decay in the language - Planning in an economy of abundance - The aesthetics of eating - The blow that hurts - The winner loses - Cliches on the air - From a flying tiger - Mademoiselle o - Wartime journey - Writers in hollywood - What's wrong with the family - In country sleep - Death of a pig - Who will do the dirty work - Peggety's parcel of stortcomings - The parents at country day - My horse buck - Detective of time - From us to you - Banjo boomer - How mr. hogan robbed a bank - Two tales of darkness - How big is one - The porcupines in the artichokes - The cost of secrecy - The nature of the artist - Canadian spring - The negro is your brother - U.S.A. revisited - Hemingway in cuba - White collar pill party - The day the computers got waldon ashenfelter - How could vietnam happen - Looking for the buckhead boys - Reviewmanship and the i-wrote-a-book disease - Warning: the chain saw cometh - Loneliness - The dublin social scene - Int'l jet set hits watkings glen - Augustine's concubine - Breed