Symbolism and American LiteratureDiscusses the work of Hawthorne, Whitman, Melville, Poe and Prospectus specifically. |
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Introduction | 1 |
The Symbolistic Imagination | 44 |
An American Tradition | 77 |
Copyright | |
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