Literary values, and other papers

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LITERARY VALUES AND OTHER PAPERS

JOHN BURROUGHS

BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1902

Published December, 1902

CONTENTS

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I. Literary Values 1

II. Analogy—True and False 27

III. Style and the Man 52

IV. Criticism and the Man 80

V. Recent Phases of Literary Criticism 109

VI. “Thou shalt not preach” 134

VII. Democracy and Literature 151

VIII. Poetry and Eloquence 161

IX. Gilbert White again 168

X. Lucid Literature 180

XI. “Mere Literature” 186

XII. Another Word on Emerson 191

XIII. Thoreau’s Wildness 197

XIV. Nature in Literature 203

XV. Suggestiveness 205

XVI. On the Re-reading of Books 216

XVII. The Spell of the Past 232

XVIII. The Secret of Happiness 244

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