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AMERICAN LITERATURE - LoveToKnow Article on AMERICAN LITERATURE |
 | | American standard literature, so constituted, belongs to romanticism, and is a phase of the romanticism which was then the general mood of literature; but it is a native product, with traits of its own and inward development from local conditions, not only apparent by its themes, but by its distinct evolution. |
| | In literature this state of things is reflected in the absence in it of any disturbance, its serenity of mood, its air of quiet studies. |
| | Their attitude toward it and (with the exception of Whittier and Lowell) toward the anti-slavery movement which led up to it was rather that of citizens than of poets, though in the verse of Longfellow and Emerson there is the noble stamp of the hour, the impress of liberty, bravery and sorrow. |
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