The oblique light : studies in literary history and biography - Spiller, Robert Ernest 1896-1988. (New York : Macmillan, 1968)
Benjamin Franklin: student of life.--Franklin on the art of being human.--Fenimore Cooper: the critical American in England.--Second thoughts on Cooper as a social critic.--A case for W. E. Channing.--Ralph Waldo Emerson: man thinking.--The mind and art of Nathaniel Hawthorne.--The private novel of Henry Adams.--Henry Adams: man of letters.--Sidney Lanier: ancestor of anti-realism.--Edmund Wilson: the dual role of criticism.--The English literary horizon: 1815-35.--The American in Europe: then and now.--Those early days: a personal memoir.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: American literature -- History and criticism