Sketches
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Critics and general readers highly regarded the poetry and prose of Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806“1867) during the American Renaissance of creative literature in the decades before the Civil War. As an editor and frequent contributor to one of the young nation's most successful and elegant literary magazines, The New-York Mirror, Willis achieved an international reputation for his witty and worldly tales and letters. This new edition collects outstanding examples of Willis's short fiction written at the peak of his abilities. This scholarly edition of important short fiction by N. P. Willis in...
Chapters (130)
- SKETCHES:
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- SKETCHES.
- THE SACRIFICE OF ABRAHAM.
- ABSALOM.
- HAGAR IN THE WILDERNESS.
- JEPHTHAH’S DAUGHTER.
- IDLENESS.
- DREAMS.
- OCTOBER.
- BOYHOOD.
- NIGHT SKETCHES.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- TWILIGHT.
- DAWN.
- SCRAPS FROM A JOURNAL.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- BETTER MOMENTS.
- THE HINDOO MOTHER.
- WAITING FOR THE HARVESTERS.
- FUGITIVE PIECES.
- THE SOLDIER’S WIDOW.
- THE BURIAL OF ARNOLD,
- TO LAURA W——,
- SONNET.
- SONNET.
- SONNET.
- EXTRACT FROM A POEM
- NOTES.
- PAGE 32, LINES 12 and 13.
- PAGE 33, LINES 9 and 10.
- PAGE 47, LINE 12.
- PAGE 84, LINE 4.
- PAGE 87, LINE 14.
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