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BROOKS, VAN WYCK. THE FLOWERING OF NEW ENGLAND, 1815-1865. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1940. Hard Cover Very Good A narrative of the literary history of United States, Brooks uses New England as his subject, as it has found expression in the lives and works of writers. Chapters include: The Boston of Gilbert Stuart; Harvard College in 1815; Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella; Longfellow in Cambridge; Thoreau; The Boston Historians: Motley; Emerson in Conord; The Anti-Salvery Writers; The Romantic Exiles, etc.
Tan cloth boards & spine, blue title panel to spine. Spine ends bumped, small tears. Faded prev owners name to e.p. private ex-lib stamp to page edges & margin of title page. Clean text, tightly bound. tall 8 vo, 550 pp Price: 6.50 USD
