Oxford Book of American Essays

by Various Authors Narrated by LibriVox Community

Overview

THE customary antithesis between "American" literature and "English" literature is unfortunate and misleading in that it seems to exclude American authors from the noble roll of those who have contributed to the literature of our mother-tongue. Of course, when we consider it carefully we cannot fail to see that the literature of a language is one and indivisible and that the nativity or the domicile of those who make it matters nothing. Just as Alexandrian literature is Greek, so American literature is English; and as Theocritus demands inclusion in any account of Greek literature, so Thoreau cannot be omitted from any history of English literature as a whole.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169074314
Publisher:	LibriVox
Publication date:	08/25/2014
Sales rank:	800,061

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