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Works by Walter Blair

Tall Tale America (1944) 93 copies
Native American Humor (1937) 30 copies
Mark Twain & Huck Finn (1960) 20 copies
Approaches to poetry (1935) 18 copies

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Canonical name
Blair, Walter
Birthdate
1900-04-21
Date of death
1992-06-29
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Birthplace
Spokane, Washington, USA
Places of residence
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Occupations
Folklorist
Relationships
Bellow, Saul (Student)
Roth, Philip (Student)

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From Jonathan Edwards' 1734 sermon on "Divine and Supernatural Light" to the 1940's accommodating poems of Richard Wilbur, with the masters in between: Taylor, Franklin, Woolman, Paine, Freneau, Bryant, Irving, Cooper, Poe, Longfellow, Homes, Lowell, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whittier, Whitman, Clemens (Twain), Howells, James, Steven Crane, Dreiser, Lanier, Dickinson, Adams, Robinson, Frost, Sandburg, Lindsay, Stevens, Eliot, Hart Crane, Anderson, Porter, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, Welty, Shapiro, Lowell.… (more)
 
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keylawk | Sep 12, 2010 |
This collection sparked my love of Twain and his writings.
 
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drewandlori | Nov 28, 2007 |

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Works
29
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3
Members
528
Popularity
#47,121
Rating
4.2
Reviews
2
ISBNs
25

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