01211cam a22002171  4500001000700000003000800007005001700015008004100032010001700073040002700090043001200117050002100129082001500150100003900165245008900204260003400293300002700327504004100354505055000395650004800945287132BD-DhUL20170102153813.0700928s1968    nyu      b    000 0 eng    a   68020748   aDLCcDLCdDLCdBD-DhUL  an-us---00aPS121b.S58 196800a810.9bSPO1 aSpiller, Robert Ernestd1896-1988.14aThe oblique light :bstudies in literary history and biography /cRobert E. Spiller.  aNew York :bMacmillan;c1968.  aviii, 279 p. :c22 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references.0 aBenjamin 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. 0aAmerican literaturexHistory and criticism.