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Robert E. Spiller (1896–1988)

Author of Literary history of the United States

30+ Works 435 Members

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Works by Robert E. Spiller

Literary history of the United States (1963) — Editor — 200 copies

The CYCLE OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: An Essay in Historical Criticism (1955) 133 copies

The roots of national culture, American literature to 1830 (1935) 10 copies

James Fenimore Cooper (1965) 10 copies

Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vol. 3, 1838-1842 (1972) — Editor — 9 copies

The American literary revolution, 1783-1837 (1967) 8 copies

A Time of Harvest (1962) 8 copies

Fenimore Cooper, critic of his times (1963) 6 copies

The American in England during the first half century of independence (1976) 5 copies

Literary History of the United States, vol. I (1948) 4 copies

Literary History of the United States, (3rd) Third Edition, Revised (1965) 4 copies

A descriptive bibliography of the writings of James Fenimore Cooper (1934) 4 copies

Milestones in American Literary History (1977) 4 copies

The third dimension; studies in literary history (1966) 3 copies

Amerikas litteraturhistoria : från Columbus till Faulkner 3 copies

Late Harvest: Essays and Addresses in American Literature and Culture (Contributions in American Studies) (1981) 3 copies

The Philobiblon Club of Philadelphia: The First Eighty Years, 1893-1973 (1973) 3 copies

Literary History of the United States, vol. II 3 copies

The oblique light; studies in literary history and biography 2 copies

Four makers of the American mind, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and Melville: A bicentennial tribute : new essays (1976) 2 copies

Social control in a free society (1975) 2 copies

Storia della letteratura americana 1 copy

Literary History of the United States, Revised Edition in One Volume 1 copy

Cycle Of American Literature, The * An Essay In Historical Criticism (1957) 1 copy

The Philobiblon Club of Philadelphia 1 copy

American Perspectives: The National Self-Image in the Twentieth Century (The Library of Congress Series in American Civilization, 2) 1 copy

The Oblique Light 1 copy

Modern American Literature (1961) 1 copy

American perspectives 1 copy

American Literary Revolution, 1783-1837 1 copy

Associated Works

The Pathfinder (1840) — Introduction, some editions — 1,592 copies, 13 reviews

The Pioneers (1823) — Afterword, some editions — 1,363 copies, 13 reviews

The Prairie (1827) — Introduction, some editions — 1,217 copies, 14 reviews

Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems (1965) — Editor, some editions; Editor — 504 copies, 1 review

The Van Wyck Brooks-Lewis Mumford letters: The record of a literary friendship, 1921-1963 (1970) — Editor, some editions — 7 copies

James Fenimore Cooper: Representative Selections with Intorductions, Bibliography, and Notes (1977) — Editor — 3 copies

Five Essays on Man and Nature (Crofts Classics) — Editor — 1 copy

Tahiti; memoirs of Arii Taimai — Editor, some editions — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Spiller, Robert Ernest
Birthdate: 1896-11-13
Date of death: 1988-08-24
Gender: male
Education: University of Pennsylvania (AB|1917)
University of Pennsylvania (MA|1921)
University of Pennsylvania (PhD|1924)
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Place of death: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Associated Place (for map): Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Literary history of the United States (1948)

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Associated Authors

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thomas H. Johnson Editor

Richard M. Ludwig Editor

Willard Thorp Editor

Henry Seidel Canby Editor

Wallace E. Williams Editor

Stephen E. Whicher Editor

James Fenimore Cooper

F. O. Matthiessen Contributor

Louis B. Wright Contributor

Carl Van Doren Contributor

Joseph Wood Krutch Contributor

Stith Thompson Contributor

Howard Mumford Jones Contributor

Carlos Baker Contributor

Malcolm Cowley Contributor

H. L. Mencken Contributor

Carl Sandburg Contributor

Wallace Stegner Contributor

C. Hugh Holman Contributor

Howell J. Heaney Contributor

Henry Morris Contributor

Emerson Greenaway Preface

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Works: 30
Also by: 8
Members: 435
Popularity: #56,231
Rating: ½ 3.5

ISBNs: 23
Languages: 1

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University of Pennsylvania author page

Robert E. Spiller Papers, University of Delaware

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