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Title: Four Americans
Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman

Author: Henry A. Beers

Release Date: January 26, 2008 [EBook #24435]

Language: English

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FOUR AMERICANS

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REPRINTS FROM THE YALE REVIEW

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_A Book of Yale Review Verse_

1917

_War Poems from The Yale Review_

1918

_War Poems from The Yale Review_

(_Second Edition_)

1919

_Four Americans: Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman_

1919

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FOUR AMERICANS

ROOSEVELT
HAWTHORNE
EMERSON
WHITMAN

BY

HENRY A. BEERS

AUTHOR OF

STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
A HISTORY OF ENGLISH ROMANTICISM

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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
PUBLISHED FOR THE YALE REVIEW

BY THE

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
MDCCCCXX

COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

First published, 1919
Second printing, 1920

CONTENTS

PAGE

I. Roosevelt as Man of Letters 7

II. Fifty Years of Hawthorne 33

III. A Pilgrim in Concord 59

IV. A Wordlet about Whitman 85

ROOSEVELT AS MAN OF LETTERS

In a club corner, just after Roosevelt's death, the question was asked
whether his memory would not fade away, when the living man, with his
vivid personality, had gone. But no: that personality had stamped itself
too deeply on the mind of his generation to be forgotten. Too many
observers have recorded their impressions; and already a dozen
biographies and memoirs have appeared. Besides, he is his own recorder.
He published twenty-six books, a catalogue of which any professional
author might be proud; and a really wonderful feat when it is remembered
that he wrote them in the intervals