The American Spirit in Literature Bliss Perry

Bliss Perry (1860-1954) was an American editor and scholar. He taught at Williams College from 1886 until 1893. From then until 1900 he taught at Princeton University. He taught at Harvard University between 1907 and 1930 and was Harvard lecturer at the University of Paris from 1909 to 1910. From 1899 to 1909 he was the editor of The Atlantic Monthly. He edited the works of Edmund Burke, Sir Walter Scott, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Perry wrote extensively, including works on Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, Thomas Carlyle and Emerson. He was also a prolific writer of novels, short fiction, essays, studies in poetry and an autobiography. His works include: The American Mind (1912), The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great Interpreters (1918), A Study of Poetry (1920) and The Praise of Folly and Other Papers (1923). Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The American Spirit in Literature (Bliss Perry)