Backgrounds of Literature

by Hamilton Wright Mabie

Mabie talks about writers (except for Lorna Doone) with a look at their settings and how those environments played in their literature. The chapters The Lake Country and Wordsworth, Emerson and Concord, The Washington Irving Country, Weimar and Goethe, The Land of Lorna Doone, America in Whitman's Poetry, and The Land of Scott.

316 pages, Paperback

First published February 7, 2012

About the author

Hamilton Wright Mabie, A.M., L.H.D., LL.D. (1846–1916) was an American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer.