Spiller, Robert Ernest 1896-1988

Overview

Works:	313 works in 1,618 publications in 8 languages and 31,242 library holdings
Genres:	Criticism, interpretation, etc Bibliographies Personal correspondence Reference works Literary criticism Essays Lectures Literature Poetry Speeches
Roles:	Author, Editor, Other, Author of introduction, Contributor, Writer of accompanying material, Honoree, Compiler, Commentator for written text, Annotator, Speaker
Classifications:	PS88, 810.9

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Robert Ernest Spiller

The lake gun by James Fenimore Cooper( )
by Literary Fellowship of Philadelphia( )
Curriculum and Lecture Notes Collection by University of Pennsylvania( )
Papers by Carl L Anderson( )
American Literature records( )

Norman Cousins collection of Henry Seidel Canby by Norman Cousins( Visual )
Impressions of Duke University: July 1927 by Robert Ernest Spiller( )
Louis Decimus Rubin papers by Louis D Rubin( )

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Most widely held works by Robert Ernest Spiller

Literary history of the United States by Robert Ernest Spiller( Book )

275 editions published between 1946 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 4,795 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This survey covers the history of United States literature from prominent writers including Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Longfellow, Holmes, Lowell, William Dean Howells, Sidney Lanier, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Henry Adams, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Theodore Dreiser, and Eugene O'Neil

The cycle of American literature : an essay in historical criticism by Robert Ernest Spiller( Book )

122 editions published between 1955 and 1996 in 6 languages and held by 2,120 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Historical criticism which discusses American literature in two cycles-one beginning in the new eastern colonies and ending with Melville and Whitman another beginning on the western frontier and maturing with Eliot and Faulkner

James Fenimore Cooper by Robert Ernest Spiller( Book )

29 editions published between 1936 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,646 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

James Fenimore Cooper - American Writers 48 was first published in 1965. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions

The American literary revolution, 1783-1837 by Robert Ernest Spiller( Book )

33 editions published between 1967 and 1981 in English and Spanish and held by 1,313 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Fenimore Cooper, critic of his times by Robert Ernest Spiller( Book )

30 editions published between 1929 and 1993 in English and French and held by 1,236 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A time of harvest, American literature, 1910-1960 by Robert Ernest Spiller( Book )

40 editions published between 1962 and 1969 in 3 languages and held by 1,203 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Early lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson( Book )

6 editions published between 1959 and 1972 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,124 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The third dimension; studies in literary history by Robert Ernest Spiller( Book )

29 editions published between 1965 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 991 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Fifteen essays on the flowering of American national literature and its influence on our culture

The collected works of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson( Book )

in English and held by 978 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"With the appearance of the tenth and final volume of Collected Works, a project fifty years in the making reaches completion: the publication of critically edited texts of all Emerson's works published in his lifetime and under his supervision."--The vol. 10 dust-jacket front flap

American perspectives : the national self-image in the twentieth century by American Studies Association( Book )

24 editions published between 1961 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 958 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The roots of national culture : American literature to 1830 by R. E Spiller( Book )

24 editions published between 1933 and 1949 in 3 languages and held by 919 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Four makers of the American mind, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and Melville : a bicentennial tribute : new essays by Robert Ernest Spiller( Book )

15 editions published between 1975 and 1990 in English and held by 847 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Literary history of the United States( Book )

3 editions published between 1948 and 1967 in English and held by 840 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The oblique light; studies in literary history and biography by Robert Ernest Spiller( Book )

12 editions published in 1968 in English and held by 798 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Van Wyck Brooks-Lewis Mumford letters: the record of a literary friendship, 1921-1963 by Van Wyck Brooks( Book )

9 editions published in 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 798 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Social control in a free society by Robert Ernest Spiller( Book )

14 editions published between 1960 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 723 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The 1958 Benjamin Franklin Lectures, with contributions from Loren C. Eiseley, Carl G. Hempel, Gilbert Seldes, George J. Stigler, and Willard Hurst

Notions of the Americans : picked up by a travelling bachelor by James Fenimore Cooper( Book )

3 editions published in 1963 in English and held by 618 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An 1828 semi-nonfictional travel narrative by James Fenimore Cooper. The work takes the form of letters between a fictional bachelor traveling in the United States to his European friends

Eight American authors; a review of research and criticism by Floyd Stovall( Book )

1 edition published in 1956 in English and held by 608 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

By Jay B. Hubbell, Floyd Stovall, Walter Blair, Lewis Leary, Stanley T. Williams, Willard Thorp, Harry Hayden Clark, and Robert E. Spiller. Edited by Floyd Stovall

Late harvest : essays and addresses in American literature and culture by Robert Ernest Spiller( Book )

13 editions published between 1980 and 1981 in English and Undetermined and held by 592 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Spiller recalls his pilgrimage as a scholar in this moving autobiographical tour through formative years in the history of the American studies movement. He testifies to attempting to become Emerson's "American Scholar", and argues that American studies, as far as he is concerned, appear as a logical extension of his transcendentalist quest after a national literature and culture

Milestones in American literary history by Robert Ernest Spiller( Book )

13 editions published in 1977 in 3 languages and held by 565 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Discusses the literary importance of 32 books by writers such as Lewis Mumford, D.H. Lawrence, Vernon Louis Parrington, Emile Legouis and Louis Cazamian, Bernard Fay, Norman Foerster, Howard Mumford Jones, Constance Rourke, Percy H. Boynton, Henry Seidel Canby, Myron F. Brightfield, Granville Hicks, Malcolm Cowley, Van Wyck Brooks, Josephine K. Piercy, Ralph H. Gabriel, F.O. Matthiessen, Augusto Santino, Donald Stauffer, Frank Luther Mott, Alfred Cazin, J. Donald Adams, Charles Cestre, Alexander Cowie, Lars Aahnebrink, Van Wyck Brooks, Frederick J. Hoffman, Harold C. Gardiner, Louise Bogan, Maxwell Geismar, Randall Stewart, and Willard Thorp

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