Spiller, Robert Ernest 1896-1988

Overview

Works:	232 works in 1,327 publications in 5 languages and 28,631 library holdings
Genres:	Criticism, interpretation, etc Bibliography Fiction Reference works Bibliographies Biography History Conference papers and proceedings Records and correspondence Bio-bibliography
Roles:	Author, Editor, Other, Author of introduction, Writer of accompanying material, Honoree, Commentator for written text, Speaker, Annotator, Compiler
Classifications:	PS88, 810.9

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Robert Ernest Spiller

The lake gun by James Fenimore Cooper( )
Impressions of Duke University: July 1927 by Robert Ernest Spiller( )
Curriculum and Lecture Notes Collection by University of Pennsylvania( )
Papers by Carl L Anderson( )
American Literature records( )

Louis Decimus Rubin papers by Louis D Rubin( )
by Literary Fellowship of Philadelphia( )

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Most widely held works by Robert Ernest Spiller

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

367 editions published between 1946 and 1978 in 3 languages and held by 6,554 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 )

126 editions published between 1955 and 1972 in 4 languages and held by 2,360 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A view of American literature in relation to the total growth of the country. The author surveys the great authors and their works, and discusses their place in the larger realm of all Western literature. Includes an epilogue written expressly for this edition

James Fenimore Cooper by Robert Ernest Spiller( Book )

29 editions published between 1965 and 1994 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,883 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

32 editions published between 1967 and 1981 in 3 languages and held by 1,336 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

33 editions published between 1962 and 1969 in English and held by 1,244 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

29 editions published between 1929 and 1993 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,241 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Early lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson( Book )

9 editions published between 1959 and 1964 in English and held by 1,135 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

27 editions published between 1965 and 1986 in 3 languages and held by 1,015 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 990 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

The roots of national culture; American literature to 1830 by Robert Ernest Spiller( Book )

22 editions published between 1933 and 1949 in English and Undetermined and held by 951 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

19 editions published between 1961 and 1996 in 3 languages and held by 943 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 )

14 editions published between 1975 and 1990 in English and Undetermined and held by 845 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

7 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 811 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

11 editions published in 1968 in English and held by 799 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

9 editions published between 1980 and 1981 in English and held by 597 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

13 editions published in 1977 in English and Undetermined 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

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

13 editions published between 1960 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 453 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

Representative selections by James Fenimore Cooper( Book )

6 editions published between 1936 and 1976 in English and held by 407 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This volume is ... restricted to the critical prose in order that the student may, by means of it, gain a knowledge of the mind of one ot the first authors to give form and direction to American literature

The American in England during the first half century of independence by Robert Ernest Spiller( Book )

20 editions published between 1926 and 1976 in English and Undetermined and held by 383 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Satanstoe by James Fenimore Cooper( Book )

7 editions published in 1937 in English and held by 363 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

First of a trilogy dealing with frontier life and customs in colonial New York

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