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Robert E. Spiller (1896–1988)

Author of Literary history of the United States

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Works by Robert E. Spiller

Literary history of the United States (1946) — Editor — 190 copies

The Cycle of American Literature (1955) 122 copies

Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume III: 1838-1842 (1972) — Editor — 8 copies

The American Literary Revolution, 1783-1837 (1967) 8 copies

The roots of national culture, American literature to 1830 (1935) 8 copies

James Fenimore Cooper (1965) 8 copies

A Time of Harvest (1962) 7 copies

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

The American in England during the first half century of independence (1976) 4 copies

Fenimore Cooper, critic of his times (1963) 4 copies

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

A descriptive bibliography of the writings of James Fenimore Cooper (1934) 3 copies

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

The third dimension; studies in literary history 3 copies

Milestones in American Literary History (1977) 3 copies

Literary History of the United States, (3rd) Third Edition, Revised 2 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

Amerikas litteraturhistoria : från Columbus till Faulkner 2 copies

Social control in a free society (1975) 1 copy

Late Harvest: Essays and Addresses in American Literature and Culture (Contributions in American Studies) (1981) 1 copy

Storia della letteratura americana 1 copy

The American in England (1926) 1 copy

Modern American Literature (1961) 1 copy

American perspectives 1 copy

Associated Works

The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea (1840) — Introduction, some editions — 1,431 copies

The Pioneers (1823) — Afterword, some editions — 1,215 copies

The Prairie (1827) — Introduction, some editions — 1,093 copies

Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems (1965) — Editor; Editor, some editions — 445 copies

The van Wyck Brooks- Lewis Mumford Letters (1970) — Editor, some editions — 7 copies

James Fenimore Cooper: Representative Selections, with Introduction, 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
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Place of death: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Education: University of Pennsylvania (AB|1917)
University of Pennsylvania (MA|1921)
University of Pennsylvania (PhD|1924)

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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: 25
Also by: 8
Members: 392
Popularity: #61,822
Rating: ½ 3.5

ISBNs: 23
Languages: 1

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Robert E. Spiller Papers, University of Delaware

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