Bliss Perry

The American Spirit in Literature (eBook, ePUB)

A chronicle of great interpreters

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An extraordinary piece of American history. "We are but strangers in an inn, but passengers in a ship," said Roger Williams. This sense of the transiency of human effort, the perishable nature of human institutions, was quick in the consciousness of the gentleman adventurers and sober Puritan citizens who emigrated from England to the New World. It had been a familiar note in the poetry of that Elizabethan period which had followed with such breathless interest the exploration of America. It was a conception which could be shared alike by a saint like John Cotton or a soldier of fortune like John Smith. Men are tent-dwellers. Today they settle here, and tomorrow they have struck camp and are gone. We are strangers and sojourners, as all our fathers were".

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: GAEditori
• Altersempfehlung: ab 13 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9791222432700
• Artikelnr.: 68530920

Autorenporträt

Bliss Perry (November 25, 1860 - February 13, 1954) was a literary critic, writer, editor, and teacher from the United States. Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts to eminent economist Arthur Latham Perry and Mary Brown Perry. He attended Williams College in Williamstown as well as colleges in Berlin and Strasbourg. Perry was a teacher at Williams from 1886 until 1893. He later taught at Princeton University, where he met future US President Woodrow Wilson, Dean Andrew West, and former US President Grover Cleveland, about whom he wrote amusingly in his autobiography, And Gladly Teach. From 1893 until 1900, he was the Holmes Professor of English Literature at Princeton. He released A Study of Prose Fiction in 1902, dedicating it to "the Princeton men who used to listen to these discourses." Between 1907 to 1930, Perry taught at Harvard University, and from 1909 to 1910, he was a Harvard lecturer at the University of Paris. He was the editor of The Atlantic Monthly from 1899 until 1909.