Officer! He's in Again! One Wonders What Lawrence Would Do With Mother Goose

Officer! He's in Again! One Wonders What Lawrence Would Do With Mother Goose

In Studies in Classic American Literature,* D. H. Lawrence, red-bearded British apostle of the ultra-moderns, discusses such revered literary figures of America's past as Franklin, Cooper, Poe, Melville, Whitman.

In the first place, Mr. Lawrence does not think much of the present advertised American Literary Renaissance. At present, he considers, " all that is visible to the naked European eye, in America, is a sort of recreant European." But with Hawthorne, Poe,...

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