William Bradford

The land was ours before we were the land's.She was our land more than a hundred yearsBefore we were her people. She was oursIn Massachusetts, in Virginia,But we were England's, still colonialsPossessing what we still were unpossessed by,Possessed by what we now no more possessed. . . .Robert...

The Courtauld Institute Galleries house somé ten constituent named collections, of which the most famous are the foundation collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings and drawings, and the 'Princes Gate' collection, bequeathed by Count Antoine Seilern as recently as 1978. This...

A Preface BY THE GENERAL EDITOR Major Writers of America is made possible at this point in time not so much because the energies of its editors have been prodigious but because the study of American literature—inside and outside the universities—is now systematic and mature. This happy...